Faculty at the EMC
Kris McAbee
(Ph.D., University of California, 2008)
Lecturer, English Department
U. California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
tel: (805) 893-4365
fax: (805) 893-4622
email: kris@english.ucsb.edu
(Ph.D., University of California, 2008)
Lecturer, English Department
U. California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
tel: (805) 893-4365
fax: (805) 893-4622
email: kris@english.ucsb.edu
Areas of Interest
- Renaissance Literature
- Sonnets and Sonnet Culture
- Early Modern Popular Culture
- Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
- Literary Theory
- Digital Humanities
| Books and Recent Articles |
- "The Pepys Ballad Archive: from Theory to Practice," (co-authored with Patricia Fumerton, Simone Chess, and Tassie Gniady), forthcoming in the MLA edition, Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives.
- Editorial Assistant, Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800. eds. Patricia Fumerton and Anita Guerrini. (Ashgate, forthcoming)
- "Vexed Impressions: Toward a Digital Archive of Broadside Ballad Illustrations" (co-authored with Patricia Fumerton, Carl Stahmer, and Megan Palmer Browne) forthcomin in Digtizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture, ed. Brent Nelson (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies).
- Esays on the Pepysian ballad categories "Love Pleasant" and "Humours, Frollicks, etc.," together with ballad selections for each category, forthcoming in Early Modern Broadside Ballads: From the Pepys Collection, ed. Patricia Fumerton (Tempe, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
- "Ballad Creation and Circulation: Congers and Mongers" (co-authored with Jessica C. Murphy), forthcoming in Early Modern Broadside Ballads: From the Pepys Collection, ed. Patricia Fumerton (Tempe, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies).
Current Projects
- Assistant Director, English Broadside Ballad Archive
- "'No public glory vainly I pursue': The Paradox of Printing Sonneteers"
- "The Sonnet Virus: Visualizing the Sixteenth-Century Sonnet Vogue"
- "A Sonneteer's Fiction: Doubling Perspectives in Elizabethan Prose Fiction"
- "Early Modern Short Forms and Viral Media"
Recent Courses Taught
- Sonnets and Sonneteers (Fall 09)
- Spenser's Women (Spring 09)
- Revenge Tragedy (Fall 08)
- Literature and the Culture of Information: The Role of the Artist (Winter 07)