EMC - The Early Modern Center

EMC Graduate Students

Catherine C. Zusky

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PhD Candidate, English, University of California, Santa Barbara, September 2005-present (M.A. June 2007)

BA, English, Dartmouth College, June 2001
English Major modified with Women's Studies (Graduated with Honors)

Honors Thesis: "Shakespeare's Unruly Woman"

University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
email: zusky@umail.ucsb.edu

Areas of Interest

Late-Medieval and Early Modern English drama

Rhetoric of violence and the body

Theories of performance

Dissertation Title: "Staging Pain in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama"
Committee: Patricia Fumerton (Chair), Ken Hiltner, Michael O'Connell, Jim Kearney

Publications Under Consideration:

“Staging Pain in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus,” Pacific Coast Philology
"My hart suspects more than mine eie can see": Language, Bodies and Meaning in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus,” Style

Conference Presentations

“Imaginative Space and Place of Hell in Milton’s Comus” March 2009, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, University of San Diego
“Worse Than the Devil: Ferdinand’s Hellish Imagination in The Duchess of Malfi” February 2009, Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Huntington Library
"Filling the Void: Language, Violence and Pain in Titus Andronicus" November 2008, Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association Conference, Pomona College
"Hybrid Spirituality in The Dream of the Rood" May 2008, Emotion and the Environment Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara
"After-Images of Desire: Visual-Verbal Connections in Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market'" April 2008, Northeast Modern Language Association, University of Buffalo

Awards and Fellowships

Academic Service

Panel Chair, "Shakespeare and Related Topics," PAMLA 2009
Managing Editor, UCSB English Department Newsletter 2008-2009
Conference Committee Chair, Early Modern Center Winter Conference, 2008-2009, "Before Technology"
Member, Council for Graduate Students 2008-2009
UCSB English Department Renaissance Job Search, Graduate Student Committee Member, MLA 2008
Organizer, Early Modern Center Fall Colloquium, "Before Environmentalism," November 2008
Co-organizer, Early Modern Center Winter Conference, 2007-2008, "Science and Technology 1500-1800"
Organizer, First Qualifying Exam Support Group, Fall 2007
Co-organizer, Early Modern Center Winter Conference, 2006-2007, "Making Publics"
Panelist, TA Training, Fall 2006

Research Experience

Languages/Skills

Proficient in reading, writing and speaking Spanish
Proficient in reading and speaking Marshallese
Working reading knowledge of Anglo Saxon

Teaching Experience

Teaching Associate, English 10, "Fear, Horror, and Monstrosity" (Summer 2008)
Instructor, Writing 2 (Fall 2007-Spring 2008)
Teaching Assistant, English 105A: Early Shakespeare (Spring 2007)
Lecture "The Merchant of Venice: The Cost of Comedy, or Equity Strained"
Teaching Assistant, English 105B: Later Shakespeare (Winter 2007)
Teaching Assistant, English 105A: Early Shakespeare (Winter 2005)