Kirk
Melnikoff, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Education
- Ph.D. English, Boston University. 2003.
- M.A. English, Boston University. 1995.
- B.A. English, Lehigh University. 1991.
Areas of Interest
- Book history
- Shakespeare on film
- Theatre history
- Book Project: Elizabethan Publishing and the Early Development of English Literature. This book will contribute to recent academic work on the financiers of the English book trade. It will not only be the first volume to offer a systematic outline of early English publishing’s normative practices, but it will also be the only one to trace publishing’s significant impact upon what constituted literary quality in a variety of emergent vernacular genres.
Selected Publications and Presentations
Book
Writing Robert Greene: Essays on England’s First Notorious Professional Writer. Editor (with Edward Gieskes). Forthcoming, Ashgate, 2008.
Recent Articles
“‘That will I see, lead and ile follow thee’: Robert Greene and the Authority of Performance.” Writing Robert Greene. Forthcoming, Ashgate, 2008.
“Recent Studies in Robert Greene (1989-2006).” Writing Robert Greene. Forthcoming, Ashgate, 2008.
“Case Studies in Reading 1: Reading the Texts.” Continuum Handbook to Shakespeare Studies. Eds. Andrew Hiscock and Stephen Longstaffe. Forthcoming, Continuum, 2008.
“[I]ygging vaines” and “riming mother wits”: Marlowe, Clowns and the Early Frameworks of Dramatic Authorship.” Early Modern Literary Studies. 13.2 (2007): Forthcoming.
“Wartime Shakespeare: The Strange Case of Bataan (1943).” Literature/Film Quarterly 35.2 (2007): 129-139.
“Seasoning the Sonnet, Playing Poets: ‘The Sonnet Slam’ as Extra-Pedagogical Event.” (with Jennifer Munroe) Pedagogy 7.2 (2007): 251-257.
“The ‘Extremities’ of Sumptuary Law in Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay.” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 19 (2006): 227-234.
“Jones’s Pen and Marlowe’s Socks: Richard Jones, Tamburlaine the Great (1590), and the Beginnings of English Dramatic Literature.” Studies in Philology 102.2 (2005): 184-209.
Selected Conference Presentations
“‘Jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits, / And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay’: Marlowe, Clowning and Dramatic Authorship.” MLA Annual Conference. Chicago, IL, December 2007.
“Wartime Shakespeare: The Strange Case of Bataan (1943).” Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA, April 2006.
“The Limits of Clowning in the Age of Marprelate: The Anti-Martinist Tracts and 2HenryVI.” Rocky Mountain MLA Annual Conference. Coeur D’Alene, ID, October 2005.
“Richard Jones and the Publishing of Philip Stubbes’ The Anatomie of Abuses.” Sixteenth Century Society Conference. Toronto, Canada, October 2004.
“Edward Blount and the Beginnings of English Dramatic Literature.” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. New York, NY, April 2004.
“Richard Jones, Tamburlaine the Great (1590), and the Beginnings of English Dramatic Literature.” Fifth International Marlowe Conference. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, UK, July 2003.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
English 3301 British Literature I
English 3100 Approaches to Literature
English 3050 Shakespeare in Performance
English 2100 Writing about Literature
English 2090 Shakespeare and Film
LBST 1102 Arts and Society: Film
Undergraduate/Graduate
- English 4131/5131 Early English Drama, Excluding Shakespeare
- English 4117/5117 Late Shakespeare
- English 4116/5116 Early Shakespeare
- English 4050/5050 Shakespeare’s Comedies and Romances
- English 4050/6070 Explorations in Shakespeare
Graduate
- English 6680 Shakespeare and Film
- English 6111 Shakespeare’s Comedies and Histories
Professional Appointments
Faculty Appointments
UNC Charlotte since 2002
External Appointments
- Subordinate Editor, Shakespeare on Film Newsletter (published as part of Shakespeare Bulletin), 2003-present.
- Founding Member, Shakespeare in Action: Center for the Study of Performance and Culture, UNC-Charlotte, 2007-present.
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