Associate Professor

office: 65 McReynolds
phone: 573-882-8272
email: kerwinw@missouri.edu
office hours: T 1:00-2:00,
W 3:00-5:00

Research and teaching areas:
Renaissance drama, Irish literature,
and literature and medicine

William Kerwin

William Kerwin teaches Shakespeare and early British poetry, as well as Irish literature. His current research projects involve early modern satire as it relates to changes in urban life; and the connections between forms of lyric, especially the complaint, and the drama. In 2005 the University of Massachusetts Press published his Beyond the Body: The Boundaries of Medicine and English Renaissance Drama as part of their series Studies in Early Modern Culture. The book considers the two related subjects of medical instability and Renaissance drama.

Education
PhD 1996, University of North Carolina

Selected Publications

• William Kerwin. Beyond the Body: The Boundaries of Medicine and English Renaissance Drama (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005) www.umass.edu
• William Kerwin. Brian Friel: A Casebook (New York: Garland Publications, 1997)

Courses Taught

• English 4166/7166: Major Authors, Beginning to 1603
• English 4220/7220: Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Literature
• English 4970: Capstone
• English 8220: Seminar in Renaissance British Literature
• Twentieth-Century Irish Literature: Dreaming the Nation

Selected Awards

• Folger Shakespeare Library, Short-Term Fellowship
• Provost Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award
• Purple Chalk Teaching Award
• William T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching

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