William N. West

Associate Professor in English

University Hall 419
Telephone: 847-467-1345
Fax: 847-467-1545
E-mail: w-west@northwestern.edu

Will West (Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Michigan) studies and teaches early modern drama, poetry, and prose. He has published Theatres and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge UP, 2002; pbk. 2006) and, most recently, articles on less well wrought urns (ELH, forthcoming), Jacob Burckhardt’s conception of history (MLQ, 2007), and comparing thought to fire in Freud, Michelangelo, and Wittgenstein (Mosaic, 2006), among other things. He co-edited (with Helen Higbee) Robert Weimann's book Author's Pen and Actor's Voice: Writing and Playing in Shakespeare's Theatre (Cambridge UP, 2000) and (with Bryan Reynolds) a collection of essays honoring Weimann, Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern Stage (Palgrave, 2005). He is currently at work on a book called Understanding and Confusion in the Elizabethan Theaters and on a project tracing the history of how the Renaissance has been represented.

Publications by William N. West

Theatres and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe

Author's Pen and Actor's Voice : Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre

Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage

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