EMC - The Early Modern Center

EMC Graduate Students

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

University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D. English, expected June 2008
Brigham Young University; M.A., English, August 2002
Brigham Young University; B.A. English, April 2000

Areas of Interest

I am interested in the intersections of broadside ballads, book history, and English literary history. More specifically, the place of broadside ballads in print culture and their influence on English literary history in print.

Current Projects and Publications

Dissertation: "The Broadside Ballad and English Literary History, 1540-1700" - Committee: Patricia Fumerton (Chair), Richard Helgerson, Mark Rose, William Warner

Publications

"Broadside Ballads, Miscellanies, and the Lyric in Print," forthcoming in ELH.
"The Heyday of the Broadside Ballad," forthcoming in Early Modern Broadside Ballads: From the Pepys Collection, ed. Patricia Fumerton (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies).
"Thinking Categorically and Pepys's Categories," together with a selection of ballads, forthcoming in Early Modern Broadside Ballads: From the Pepys Collection, ed. Patricia Fumerton (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies).

Awards and Honors

Regents Special Fellowship (a five-year fellowship combining two years of stipend and three years of teaching), UCSB, 2002-2007
Making Publics Research Grant (UCSB with McGill University), 2007
Phi Kappa Phi honor society, BYU, 2001
Academic Achievement Award, BYU, 2000

Presentations

"From Audience to Public: The Churchyard/Camel Flyting," Making Publics Team Meeting, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, August 2007.
Respondent to Paul Yachnin, "Making Publics: 1500-1800," Early Modern Center Fall Colloquium, UCSB, November 2006.
"Volpone and Mimetic Desire," Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Vancouver, BC, October 2001.
"'As willingly as one would kill a fly': Titus Andronicus and the Circulation of Violence," Brigham Young University Graduate Student Symposium, Provo, Utah, March 2000.

Professional Activities

Ballad Fellow and Imprint Specialist, English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), Spring 2007, Fall-Spring 2007-2008.
Graduate Student Representative, Making Publics Team Meeting, August 2007.
New Graduate Student Recruiter, March 2007.
English Broadside Ballad Archive Research Assistant, Summer 2006.
Graduate Student Associate. Making Publics Research Group, 2005-present.
Conference Assistant, "Straws in the Wind: Ballads and Broadsides, 1500-1800," Early Modern Center Winter Conference, February 2006.
Co-Organizer, "Memory: 1500-1800," Early Modern Center Winter Conference, February 2005.

Teaching Experience

University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of English:
Teaching Associate (full responsibility for text selections, syllabus design, assignments, lectures, discussions, examinations, and grading)

English 193: Detective Fiction (Summer 2007)
English 152 A: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Summer 2005)
English 105 A: Early Shakespeare (Summer 2004)
English 15: Introduction to Shakespeare (Summer 2004)

Teaching Assistant (led discussion sections, designed assignments, and graded all student work)

English 122NW: War Narratives (Winter 2007)
English 150: Irish Literature (Spring 2004)
English 102: Eighteenth Century British Literature (Winter 2004)
English 15: Introduction to Shakespeare (Fall 2003)