Faculty at the EMC
Michael O'Connell
(Ph.D., Yale, 1971)
Professor, English Department
U. California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
fax: (805) 893-4622
email: oconnell@english.ucsb.edu
(Ph.D., Yale, 1971)
Professor, English Department
U. California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
fax: (805) 893-4622
email: oconnell@english.ucsb.edu
Areas of Interest
Renaissance Literature
Medieval and Renaissance Drama
| Books and Recent Articles |
- The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theater in Early Modern England (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)
- "Vital Cultural Practices: Shakespeare and the Mysteries," JMEMS 29 (1999) 149-68.
- Robert Burton (G.K. Hall, 1986)
- Mirror and Veil: The Historical Dimension of Spenser's Faerie Queene (University of North Carolina Press, 1977)
- Articles on Spenser, Catullus, Petrach, Milton and Handel, Milton and visual arts, Elizabethan and medieval theater
- Editor and Translator of Elisaeis by William Alabaster
Current Projects
- The relations between the late medieval theater and the Elizabethan stage
- "The Idolatrous Eye: Icononclasm and Theater in Early-Modern England," an Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Lecture, UCSB, October 19, 2000.
Recent Courses Taught
- Chaucer
- The Drama Shakespeare Inherited
- Later Shakespeare
- Milton
- Literature of the Hebrew Scriptures
- Literature of the New Testament
- Biblical Narrative