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Liberty S. Stanavage
PhD Candidate, English, University of California, Santa Barbara; 2003-present
MA, English, San Francisco State University, 2002
Certificate in the Teaching of College Composition
BA, Literature (Honors), University of California, Santa Cruz, 1997
Minor in History

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


Areas of Interest

  • Medieval Literature
  • Renaissance Literature
  • Restoration Literature

Current Projects and Publications

Dissertation: "The Female Revenger in Early Modern English Drama"
Committee: James Kearney, Patricia Fumerton, Richard Helgerson, Mark Rose

M.A. Thesis: "'Second Love Will Further My Revenge': Female Power in The Spanish Tragedy
Committee: Randall Nakayama, Julie Paulson

Publications:

  • "'I fear she cannot love at all': Unnatural Female Sexuality in the Revenge Tragedy." Genre. Vol. 28, 2008.
  • Rev. of Voice in Motion, by Gina Bloom. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 62:1, Spring 2008.
  • Rev. of Tempest in the Caribbean, by Jonathan Goldberg. Early Modern Center Bookshelf. 19 March 2004. University of California Santa Barbara.
  • "'Old, foul, bad, yellow things': The use of color in The Yellow Wallpaper." Interpretations Vol. XIV. SFSU Spring 2002.
  • "'If These Be Good People': Law, Ethics, and Morality in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure." Interpretations Vol. XII. SFSU Spring 2000.

Conference Papers:

    International:
  • "Intemperate Temperance and Unjust Justice: Failed Virtue as a Deliberate Construction in Book V of Spenser’s Faerie Queene." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (SCSC), San Antonio, TX 10/24-10/27/02.


    • Regional:
  • "Englishing Medea: Gender, Marriage, and Elizabethan Anxieties in John Studley’s Medea." Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC), San Marino, CA, 2/2/08.
  • "'Such a Sinner of His Memory': Prospero, Bruno, and the failure of Neo-Platonic Memory," Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Bellingham, WA, 11/2/07-11/3/07.
  • "Un-'Happy Endings' and Social Reform: Proserpine, Midas, and the Question of Change." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), Calgary, 10/4/07-10/6/07.
  • "Beyond the Epic?: The Failure of Love Poetry in The Shepheardes Calendar and the Construction of a New Poetic Paradigm." Northern California Renaissance Conference (NCRC), Oakland, 4/29/06.


    • Local:
  • "Textuality, Performance Record, and Power: Competing Functions and the Struggle for Authority in the York Register." UCSB Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference, Santa Barbara, 4/16/05.
  • "If These Be Good People: Law, Ethics, and Morality in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure." CSU Shakespeare Symposium, CSU Fullerton, 11/30-12/1/01.

Fellowships and Awards:

  • Brython Davis Central Fellowship, Spring 2006, UC Santa Barbara

Professional Service:

2005-present Graduate Student Associate, Making Publics: Media, Markets, and Association in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700. Research Consortium, McGill University.
Summer 2004, 2006, 2007 Ballad Team Member (Cataloguer, Transcriber, Checker), English Broadside Ballad Archive, NEH Reference Materials Project. PI: Patricia Fumerton. Early Modern Center, UC Santa Barbara.
February 24 - 25 2006 Conference Organizer and Panel Moderator, "Straws in the Wind": Ballads and Broadsides, 1500-1800. Early Modern Center Winter Conference, UC Santa Barbara.
2003-2005 Work Group Member, Diversity Work Group. English Department, UC Santa Barbara.
2003-2004 GSA Representative, English, Graduate Student Association. UC Santa Barbara.
1999-2001 Associate Editor 1999-2000, Editor-in-chief 2000-2001, Interpretations. San Francisco State University.
2000-2001 Co-chair, Graduate Literature Association. San Francisco State University.
2000-2001 Committee member, Graduate Literature Curriculum Committee. San Francisco State University.

Teaching Experience

Associateships:

  • English 15: Introduction to Shakespeare, Summer 2007
  • English 10: Introduction to Literary Study, Summer 2006
  • English 105A: Shakespeare: Early Plays – Threads of Memory, Summer 2005

Assistantships:

  • English 10EM: Introduction to Literary Study: Early Modern Literature of Science and Technology, Winter 2008
  • Writing 2: Academic Writing, Fall 2008, Winter 2007, Winter 2006, Spring 2005, Winter 2005, Fall 2004
  • English 10EM: Introduction to Literary Study: Early Modern – Female Revengers, Spring 2007
  • English 10EM: Introduction to Literary Study: Early Modern – Visions of the Popular in early Modern Popular Culture, Fall 2005

Teaching Assistantships:

  • English 122EN:Cultural Representations : Introduction to Literature and the Environment, Spring 2008
  • English 15: Introduction to Shakespeare, Fall 2006
  • English 105A: Shakespeare: Early Plays, Spring 2004
  • English 102: English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789, Winter 2004
  • English 101: English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650, Fall 2003

Lectures:

  • "As hogs do rub themselves on gates and grunt": Representations of sexuality in "The Imperfect Enjoyment" and "The Disappointment." 2/11/04. UCSB, ENGL 102.

Professional Associations:
Member RMMLA, PAMLA, MLA, RCSC, Shakespeare Association of America

Languages:
Command of Spanish. Reading Knowledge of Italian, French, Latin, Anglo-Saxon.
 
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