Jeffrey Masten

Associate Professor of English and Director of the Gender Studies Program
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence

University Hall Room 308
Telephone: (847) 491-3012
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: j-masten@northwestern.edu

Jeffrey Masten (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) writes about and teaches English Renaissance literature and culture, drama, the history of sexuality and gender, queer theory, textual editing, and the history and theory of authorship. He has written Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama (Cambridge, 1997), and, with Peter Stallybrass and Nancy J. Vickers, has co-edited Language Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production (Routledge,1997). He is currently writing a book entitled Spelling Shakespeare, and Other Essays in Queer Philology. He is the editor of the journal Renaissance Drama (Northwestern University Press). Professor Masten is the Director of the Gender Studies Program at Northwestern, in which he holds a joint appointment. He was the 2003 recipient of the E. LeRoy Hall Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and in 2006 was named Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence by the university. He is a recent trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America , has served on the Advisory Committee for the journal PMLA (2003-06), and is a member of the Modern Language Association's Division on Shakespeare executive committee as well as the MLA’s committee on the Shakespeare Variorum Edition.

Publications by Jeffrey Masten

Books, Editions, and Collections

The Old Law , by Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton, and Thomas Heywood. An edition of the 1656 text, with critical introduction, innovative commentary and textual apparatus, and textual introduction, in Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works, general editor Gary Taylor. Additional materials in Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture. Oxford

University Press, 2007.

Language Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production . Selected papers from the 1995 English Institute. Ed. with an introduction by Jeffrey Masten, Peter Stallybrass, and Nancy J. Vickers. Routledge, 1997.

Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 14, general editor Stephen Orgel, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
* Excerpt reprinted in Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader, ed. Ewan Fernie,

Ramona Wray, Mark Thornton Burnett, and Clare McManus. Oxford University Press, 2005.

Renaissance Drama XXVIII (1997), "The Space of the Stage." Ed. Jeffrey Masten and Wendy Wall. Northwestern University Press, 1999.

Renaissance Drama XXIX (1998), "Dramas of Hybridity: Performance and the Body." Ed. Jeffrey Masten and Wendy Wall. Northwestern University Press, 2000.

Renaissance Drama XXX (1999-2001), "Institutions of the Text." Ed. Jeffrey Masten and Wendy Wall. Northwestern University Press, August 2001.

Renaissance Drama 31 (2002), "Performing Affect" Ed. Jeffrey Masten and Wendy Wall. Northwestern University Press, August 2002.

Renaissance Drama 32 (2003), open topic. Ed. Jeffrey Masten and Wendy Wall. Northwestern University Press, August 2003.

Renaissance Drama 33 (2004), open topic. Ed. Jeffrey Masten and Wendy Wall. Northwestern University Press, 2004.

Renaissance Drama 34 (2005), "Media, Technology, and Performance." Ed. W.B. Worthen, Wendy Wall, and Jeffrey Masten. Northwestern University Press, 2006.

Spelling Shakespeare, and Other Essays in Queer Philology . A book-length study in preparation.

Articles

“Editing Boys: the Performance of Gender in Print.” Redefining British Theatre History: from Performance to Print. Ed. Peter Holland and Stephen Orgel. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 113-34.

"Y2K, 2NK: Time for Kinsmen," playnotes for the Chicago Shakespeare Theater at Navy Pier production of The Two Noble Kinsmen, dir. Darko Tresnjak, fall 2006.

"Towards a Queer Address: the Taste of Letters and Early Modern Male Friendship." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 10:3 (2004): 367-84. Special issue in memory of Alan Bray, ed. Jody Greene.

"Material Cavendish: Paper, Performance, 'Sociable Virginity.'" MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly , 65.1 (March 2004): 49-68. Special issue: "Feminism in Time," ed. Margaret Ferguson and Marshall Brown.

"The Two Gentlemen of Verona." A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume III: The Comedies. Ed. Jean E. Howard and Richard Dutton. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 266-288.

"Living Arrangements, Writing Arrangements (Looking for Francis Beaumont)." The Elizabethan Theatre XV: Papers given at the Fifteenth and Sixteenth International Conferences on Elizabethan Theatre . Ed. A. Lynne Magnusson and C. Edward McGee. Toronto: P.D. Meany, 2002, pp. 39-64.

"More or Less: Editing the Collaborative." Shakespeare Studies 29 (2001): 109-31.

"Ben Jonson's Head." Roundtable on "Material Cultures," ed. Peter Stallybrass. Shakespeare Studies 28 (2000) : 160-168.

"The Interpretation of Dreams, c. 1610." Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture . Ed. Carla Mazzio and Douglas Trevor. Routledge, 2000, pp. 157-185.

"A Modern Perspective," in William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona . Ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. The New Folger Library Shakespeare. New York: Washington Square Press, 1999, pp. 199-221.

"Pressing Subjects; Or, The Secret Lives of Shakespeare's Compositors." Language Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production . Ed. Jeffrey Masten, Peter Stallybrass, and Nancy J. Vickers. Routledge, 1997, pp. 75-107.

"Playwrighting: Authorship and Collaboration." A New History of Early English Drama . Ed. John D. Cox and David Scott Kastan. Columbia University Press, 1997, pp. 357-382.

"Is the Fundament a Grave?" The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe . Ed. David Hillman and Carla Mazzio. Routledge, 1997, pp. 128-145.

"Textual Deviance: Ganymede's Hand in As You Like It ." Field Work: Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies . Ed. Marjorie Garber, Paul B. Franklin, and Rebecca Walkowitz. Routledge, 1996, pp. 153-163.

"Family Values: Euthanasia, Editing, and The Old Law ." Textual Practice 9.3 (1995): 445-458.

"My Two Dads: Collaboration and the Reproduction of Beaumont and Fletcher." Queering the Renaissance . Ed. Jonathan Goldberg. Duke University Press, 1994, pp. 280-309.

"Beaumont and/or Fletcher: Collaboration and the Interpretation of Renaissance Drama." English Literary History 59 (1992): 337-356. Reprinted in: Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal (special issue on "Intellectual Property and the Construction of Authorship") 10.2 (1992): 625-645. Reprinted in: The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature . Ed. Martha Woodmansee and Peter Jaszi. Duke University Press, 1994, pp. 361-381.

"'Shall I turne blabb?': Circulation, Gender, and Subjectivity in Wroth's Sonnets." Reading Mary Wroth: Representing Alternatives in Early Modern England . Ed. Naomi J. Miller and Gary F. Waller. University of Tennessee Press, 1991, pp. 67-87. Reprinted in: Early Women Writers 1600-1720 . Ed. Anita Pacheco. Longman Critical Readers Series. Addison Wesley Longman, 1997.

Reviews

Review of Alan Stewart, Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England , in Shakespeare Studies 28 (2000): 361-65.

Review of Claude Summers, ed., Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: Literary Representations in Historical Context , and Jonathan Goldberg, Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities , in Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter . July 1993.

Online Publications

"Gee, Your Heir Smells Terrific: Response to ' Shakespeare's Perfume,' by Richard Halpern ." Early Modern Culture: an electronic seminar 2 .

Introduction and contextual materials: Plays of Margaret Cavendish (1662 and 1668), Renaissance Women Online , Women Writers Project , Brown University,1998.

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