James Mardock
James Mardock joined the English department in 2006, after two years teaching at Ripon College in Ripon, WI. He grew up in the midwest, and after thinking better of a career in medicine, attended the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he received a master's degree in Shakespeare Studies. He completed a PhD in Renaissance literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996, with an emphasis in theater and drama.
Since joining the Nevada faculty, he has taught Introduction to Graduate Study, graduate seminars in Spenser and seventeenth-century city theater, Core Humanities, and undergraduate courses in Shakespeare, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and sixteenth-century literature.
His research focuses on considerations of space and place in early modern culture, and on the construction of the concept of authorship. He has published articles on Shakespeare and Dickens, on Ben Jonson's exploration of gender construction and transvestism, and on the poetics of propaganda in the English civil war. His first monograph, Our Scene is London: Ben Jonson's City and the Space of the Author (2008) examines urban space as a crucial aspect of the playwright's authorial strategies. Forthcoming publications include critical editions of Shakespeare's Henry V and of the works of Renaissance actor/poet Robert Armin, and an essay on King James I and the plague of 1603.