DR. CATHERINE LOOMIS

Associate Professor
MA, The Shakespeare Institute, 1993
Ph.D, University of Rochester, 1997

Catherine Loomis holds a Ph. D. in Renaissance Literature from the University of Rochester , and a Master's in Shakespeare and Performance from the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon . Dr. Loomis's publications include William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume (Gale, 2002); “Falstaff in America ” which will appear in Medieval Shakespeare in Performance , edited by Sid Ray and Martha W. Driver ( Jefferson , NC : McFarland, forthcoming, 2007); “A Brittle Gloriana: Staging the Deposition of Queen Elizabeth I.” Explorations in Renaissance Culture (forthcoming, Summer 2007); “Elizabeth Abbott”; “Elizabeth Southwell”; “A Short and Sweet Sonnet” in Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print , edited by Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York: Routledge, 2003); “‘What bloody man is that?': Sir Robert Carey and Shakespeare's Bloody Sergeant” in Notes & Queries 48 (September, 2001); “Othello's ‘entire and perfect chrys olite': A Reply” in Notes & Queries 46 (June, 1999); and “Elizabeth Southwell's Manuscript Account of the Death of Queen Elizabeth I (with text)” in English Literary Renaissance 26.3 (Autumn, 1996) and reprinted in The Mysteries of Elizabeth I , edited by Kirby Farrell and Kathleen Swaim (Amherst: U. Massachusetts Press, 2003) and (text only) in Elizabeth I and Her Age . Ed. Susan Felch and Donald Stump ( New York : Norton, 2007). Dr. Loomis's research interests include Shakespeare and other early modern dramatists, performance history, early modern women writers, and the use of corpses on the Jacobean stage. She is currently at work on a book-length study of the literary responses to the death of Queen Elizabeth I.

Phone Number:
(504) 280-6113

Email Dr. Loomis@
cloomis@uno.edu

Address: Liberal Arts Building 177

Office Hours:

MWF 11:00am-1:00pm

Courses for Fall 2009:

Engl 1159-196:
Freshman Composition
Honors
MWF 1:00-1:50pm

Engl 3394-001:
Seminar in English:
Revenge
MW 3:00-4:15pm