Professor and Associate Chair for Administration and Curriculum; Associate Director, Literary London
English
James Bromley
Education
- PhD, Loyola University Chicago
- MA, Loyola University Chicago
- BA, Aquinas College
Research and Teaching Interests
- Shakespeare
- Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama, poetry, and prose
- History of sexuality and queer theory
Selected Publications
- "Society and Sexuality." Routledge Companion to Renaissance Literature. Ed. Catherine Bates. Routledge, forthcoming.
- "Sidney and Clothing," Oxford Handbook of Philip Sidney. Ed. Catherine Bates. Oxford: Oxford UP, forthcoming 2024.
- Clothing and Queer Style in Early Modern English Drama. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- "Love and Friendship." A Handbook of English Renaissance Studies. Ed. John Lee. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. 29-42.
- "Cruisy Historicism: Sartorial Extravagance and Public Sexual Culture in Ben Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 16.2 (2016): 21-58.
- "'Quilted with Mighty Words to Lean Purpose': Clothing and Queer Style in The Roaring Girl." Renaissance Drama 43.2 (2015) 143-172.
- Sex Before Sex: Figuring the Act in Early Modern England. Ed. James M. Bromley and Will Stockton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
- "Rimming the Renaissance," in Sex Before Sex: Figuring the Act in Early Modern England.
- Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- "Social Relations and Masochistic Sexual Practice in The Nice Valour," Modern Philology 107.4 (2010): 556-587. Winner of the 2011 Martin Stevens Award for Best New Essay in Early Drama Studies from the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society.
- "'Let It Suffise’: Sexual Acts and Narrative Structure in Hero and Leander." Queer Renaissance Historiography: The Backward Gaze. Ed. Stephen Guy-Bray, Vin Nardizzi, and Will Stockton. Burlington: Asghate, 2009. 67-84.
- "'The Onely Way to Be Mad, Is to Bee Constant': Defending Heterosexual Non-monogamy in John Lyly’s Love's Metamorphosis." Studies in Philology 106.4 (2009): 420-440.
- "Intimacy and the Body in Seventeenth–Century Religious Devotion." Early Modern Literary Studies 11.1 (May 2005). http://purl.oclc.org/emls/11-1/brominti.htm
Grants and Awards
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2017-2018
- Solmsen Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, 2014-2015
- Martin Stevens Award for the Best New Essay in Early Drama Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society, 2011
Work in Progress
Professor Bromley is currently working on a project on Philip Sidney and queer sexualities.