Tom Flanigan

Education

• Ph.D., English Literature, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
• M.A., English Literature; M.A.T. English, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
• B.A., English, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts

Teaching Interests

• Shakespeare
• Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Chaucer to Milton)
• History of Drama and Poetry
• The Bible and Classical Literature (in translation)
• Composition
• Film Studies

Research Interests

• Late-Medieval and Renaissance Drama / Shakespeare
• Colonial American Literature / Hawthorne
• History of Music and Religion
• Stage / Performance History; Shakespeare and Film

Selected Publications

• “For ‘such as desire . . . to taste . . . so ravishing a Sweet Science’: Self-Help Lute Books in Early Modern England,” The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance History (JMRH), volume 10 (2013)
• “The Several Faces of Late-Gothic Eve: Gender and Marriage in the Mystery Creation and Fall Plays," Quidditas (publication of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association), volume 34 (2013)
• "Parson Evans' Musical Muddle in The Merry Wives of Windsor," The Explicator, Volume 68, Number 3 (spring 2010)
• "On Fashionable Education and the Art of Rhetoric: Reflections of a Not-Indifferent Student in Love's Labour's Lost," The Journal of the Wooden O Symposium, Volume 5 (2005)
• "Trumping the 'Annalists' with the Higher Truth of Fiction: Systematic Ambiguity in Hawthorne's 'The May-Pole of Merry Mount,'" The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, Volume 29, Number 2 (fall 2003)
• "What To Do About Bawds and Fornicators?  Sex and Law in Measure for Measure and Tudor/Stuart England," The Journal of the Wooden O Symposium, Volume 3 (2003)
• "Everyman or Saint?  Doubting Joseph in the Corpus Christi Cycles," Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England (MaRDiE), Volume 8 (1997)