Faculty at the EMC
Patricia Fumerton
(Ph.D., Stanford University, 1981)
Professor, English Department
U. California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
tel: (805) 893-8482
fax: (805) 893-4622
email: pfumer@english.ucsb.edu
(Ph.D., Stanford University, 1981)
Professor, English Department
U. California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
tel: (805) 893-8482
fax: (805) 893-4622
email: pfumer@english.ucsb.edu
Areas of Interest
- Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century culture and literature
- Sidney, Spenser, Jonson
- High and low subjectivity
- Vagrancy and spatial mobility
- Popular Broadsides
| Books and Recent Articles |
Books
- Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England (University of Chicago Press, 2006)
- Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, co-edited with Simon Hunt (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999)
- Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice
of Social Ornament (University of Chicago Press, 1991).
~ also published in Japanese, together with a new Author's Preface, trans. Shogo Ikuta, Osamu Yagawa, and Akira Inoue (Tokyo: Shohakusha Press, 1996)
Articles
- "Remembering by Dismembering: Databases, Archiving, and the Recollection of Seventeenth-Century Broadside Ballads," article for forthcoming special issue of Early Modern Literary Studies (EMLS), edited by Shawn Martin, (September 2008)
- "Mocking Aristocratic Place: The Perspective of the Streets," Early Modern Culture (Fall 2008)
- “Introduction” and “Afterword,” to “Richard Helgerson’s Laureate Career, The Spenser Review 38, no. 1 (Winter 2007), pp. 5, 17-18
- "Making Vagrancy (In)Visible: The Economics of Disguise in Early Modern Rogue Pamphlets," English Literary Renaissance 33.2 (Spring 2003): 211-27; reprinted in Rogues and Early Modern Literary Culture: A Critical Anthology, eds. Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz, (University of Michigan Press, 2004), pp. 193-210
- Various articles on the literature and culture of the lower orders, gift exchange and Spenser's Garden of Adonis, miniature painting and sonnets, Spenserian stylistics, minoritarian languages, the new historicism, vagrancy, mobility, and ballad culture
Current Projects
- The Moving Matter of Broadside Ballads: The Lady and the Blackamoor (book project contracted to University of Chicago Press)
- Early Modern Ballads: From the Pepys Collection (edition contracted with Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Arizona State University Press)
- Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800, collection of essays co-edited with Anita Guerrini (contracted with Ashgate Press)
- "Preface" and "Samuel Pepys and his Ballad Collection" essay for Pepys Collection edition
- "The Pepys Ballad Archive: from Theory to Practice," article co-written with Simone Chess, Tassie Gniady, and Kris McAbee, for MLA edition, Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives
- "Introduction" and "Remembering by Dismembering" essay (revised) for Ballads and Broadsides edition
- Currently directing the digitizing of all early English broadside ballads, with an emphasis on the ornamental black-letter broadsides of the seventeenth century, as part of the Early Modern Center's English Broadside Ballads Archive (EBBA). Also working on a book on black-letter and the idea of blackness in early modern England and America.
Recent Courses Taught