Emily King
Emily King
Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and English
- Payne Hall 111
- P: 540-458-8924
- E: elking@wlu.edu
Education
- Ph.D. in English, Tufts University
- M.A. in English, Tufts University
- B.S. in Microbiology and B.A. in English Literature, Kansas State University
Research
- Shakespeare
- Renaissance drama
- Science & early modern literature
- Gender & sexuality
- Early modern race studies
- Emotion & affect studies
- Critical theory
Selected Publications
Books
- Civil Vengeance: Literature, Culture, and Early Modern Revenge. Cornell University Press, 2019.
Articles
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“Mutable Maggots: Corruption, Generation, and the Literary Legacy,” Lesser Living Creatures: Insect Life in the Age of Thomas Moffett, Eds. Keith Botelho and Joseph Campana, Pennsylvania State Press, 2023.
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“Affect Contagion in John Donne’s Deaths Duell,” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (SEL), Volume 56.1, 2016: 111-130.
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“Dirty Jokes: Disgust, Desire, and the Pornographic Narrative in Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller,” Disgust in Early Modern Literature, Eds. Natalie K. Eschenbaum and Barbara Correll, Routledge, 2016. 23-37.
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“Spirited Flesh: The Animation and Hybridization of Flesh in the Early Modern Imaginary,” a special issue of Postmedieval, Eds. Kathryn Schwarz and Holly Crocker, Volume 4.4, 2013: 479-490.
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“The Female Muselmann: Desire, Violence, and Spectatorship in Titus Andronicus,” Titus Out of Joint: Reading the Fragmented Titus Andronicus, Eds. Liberty Stanavage and Paxton Hehmeyer, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. 125-139.
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“American Schmucko: The Overlooked Jewish Identity of Roy Cohn in Kushner’s Angels in America,” Studies in American Jewish Literature, Volume 27, 2008: 87-100.
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“Reconsidering Reparation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret and Critical Reading Practices,” Pacific Coast Philology, Volume 43, 2008: 55-71.