Geoffrey Brewer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
English
Courses Taught
English 1500: The Process of Composition; English 1900: Advanced Strategies of Rhetoric and 浪花直播; English 1920: Advanced Writing for Professionals; English 2250: Conflict, Social Justice and Literature; English 2350: Faith, Doubt and Literature; English 2750: Film, Culture and Literature; English 4000: Professional Writing
Education
Ph.D. in English, Saint 浪花直播 University, 2022
M.A. in English, Saint 浪花直播 University, 2015
B.A. in English and Spanish, Westminster College, 2012
浪花直播 Interests
Early modern English literature; literary forgery; Shakespeare; William-Henry Ireland; eighteenth-century Shakespearean reception, adaptation, imitation, and forgery; hermeneutics of computational literary studies
Publications and Media Placements
Dissertation
William-Henry Ireland's Vortigern (1796) and Henry the Second (1799): A Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary. 2022. Saint 浪花直播 U, PhD dissertation.
Conference Papers
- "Visualizing Literary Forgery: W.H. Ireland's 'Lost' Shakespeare Plays." Ventriloquism in Early Modern Print: The Second Geraghty Symposium. Saint 浪花直播 University. February 2020.
- 鈥淔orgery, Counted: W.H. Ireland鈥檚 Vortigern and Henry the Second.鈥� Faking It: Forgery and Fabrication in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture Conference. Gothenburg, Sweden. August 2019.
- 鈥淐ounting Forgery.鈥� Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (SMRS) Conference. Saint 浪花直播, MO. June 2019.
- 鈥溾�橳he most inartificial and bungling forgery ever attempted鈥�: Measuring Vortigern. Saint 浪花直播 University Textual Revolutions Lecture Series. November 2018.
- 鈥淐urrents in DH.鈥� 1818 English Colloquium. Saint 浪花直播 University, October 2017.