VIMALA C. PASUPATHI Assistant Professor of English Literature, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 2006 Present.

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1 VIMALA C. PASUPATHI Assistant Professor of English Literature, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 2006 Present. EDUCATION Ph.D., English, The University of Texas at Austin, M.A., English, The Ohio State University, B.A., English, Ohio Wesleyan University, Austin St. Apt. #3G Forest Hills, NY RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS Shakespeare Early modern rhetoric and poetics Drama and theater history Epic and Romance Early Tudor to late Stuart literature Early historiography Early women s literature to 1900 Print and manuscript culture English military culture Early modern nationalism(s) Scotland, Ireland, and Wales Gender and sexuality SCHOLARSHIP PUBLICATIONS, IN PRINT PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES Coats and Conduct: The Materials of Military Obligation in Shakespeare s Henry Plays, Modern Philology 109 (2012): Jockeying Jony: The Politics of Horse Racing and Regional Identity in The Humourous Magistrate, Early Theatre 14.2 (2011): Theories of Creativity in a Historical Lens, co-authored with Monisha Pasupathi and Benjamin Armintor, Clio s Psyche 18 (2011): Shakespeare, Fletcher, and the The Gain O the Martialist, Shakespeare 7.5 (2011): New Model Armies: Recontextualizing the Camp in Margaret Cavendish s Bell in Campo, ELH 78 (2011): The King s Privates: Sex and the Soldier s Place in John Fletcher s The Humorous Lieutenant (ca. 1618), Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama XLVII (2008): CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS Teaching Margaret Cavendish s Bell in Campo, in Teaching Restoration and Eighteenth Century Women Dramatists. Eds. Bonnie Nelson and Catherine Burroughs (New York: Modern Language Association, 2010): Old Playwrights, Old Soldiers, New Martial Subjects: Shakespeare, the Cavendishes, and the Drama of Soldiery, Cavendish and Shakespeare: Interconnections. Eds. James B. Fitzmaurice and Katherine Romack (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006): PUBLICATIONS, FORTHCOMING PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES Arms and the Folio: Shakespeare as Warlike Accoutrement in William Cavendish s The Country Captain (ca. 1641) Philological Quarterly, 26 pp. MS (Expected date of Publication Winter 2012) (FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS CONTINUED)

2 PUBLICATIONS, FORTHCOMING CHAPTER IN EDITED COLLECTION The Quality of Mercenaries: Contextualizing Shakespeare s Elizabethan Scots in Celtic Shakespeare: The Bard and the Borderers. Eds. Willy Maley and Rory Loughnane (Ashgate Publishing, 2013): RESEARCH IN PROGRESS BOOK MANUSCRIPT The Militia Theatre, : Playing the Soldier in English Drama and British History, 419 pp. book MS. (proposal and chapters currently under review). SOLICITED PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE Political Prose and the Civil Wars: Pamphlets and London Culture post-1642 solicited for Yearbook of English Studies 2014 (30 pp. MS). CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS Locating The Valiant Scot (1626/1637) in Performing Environments: Site Specificity in Medieval & Early Modern English Drama. Eds. Susan Bennett and Mary Polito (23 pp. MS, under contract with Palgrave MacMillan Press). Furious Soldiers and Mad Lovers: Fletcherian Plots and The History of Cardenio in Shakespeare, Cervantes, Fletcher, etc: Cardenio, Collaboration, and Performance Eds. Gary Taylor and Terri Bourus (17 pp. MS, accepted by editors; collection under review with Palgrave MacMillan Press). TEXTBOOK FOR COURSES IN LITERATURE AND IRISH STUDIES Beyond A View: An Anthology of English Writing on Ireland, , edited collection of primary texts with Willy Maley and Rory Loughnane. OTHER PUBLISHED WORK Introduction, Notes, and Critical Bibliography, Tess of the d Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (New York: Simon & Schuster, June 2006). Curriculum Guide to Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, co-authored with Ashley E. Shannon (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004). PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS INVITED TALKS (INCLUDING INVITATIONS FOR FALL 2012) Drafting Shakespeare: Going to War, Armed with the Bard, Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York (November 2012). History and the Present Shakespeare Colloquium (20 th Annual), Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey (October 2012). Fletcher s Martial Ethos, The History of Cardenio: England and Spain, Then and Now, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana (April 2012) Locution and Location, New Directions in Medieval and Renaissance Drama Workshop, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada (February 2010). Coats and Conduct: The Materials of Military Obligation in Shakespeare s Henry Plays, Columbia Shakespeare Seminar, Columbia University, New York, NY (March 2009).

3 CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS Shakespeare s Labour s Lost: Working Stages and Folio Pages in 1639, Society of Textual Scholarship, Austin, TX (June 2012). The Militia Theatre, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) Annual Convention, Boston, MA (April 2012). Vested in &c, : Placing the Militia, , World Shakespeare Congress, Prague (July 2011). Arms and the Folio: Shakespeare as Warlike Accoutrement in William Cavendish s The Country Captain, Shakespeare Association of America Annual Convention, Bellevue, WA (April 2011). Mustering Humor in the Common Context of War, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) Annual Convention, Chicago, IL (April 2010). Marching through Bog, Sand, and Highland: The Irish Footprint in Scottish Martial History, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) Annual Convention, Dallas, TX (October 2009). The Quality of Mercenaries: Shakespeare s Vile and Valiant Scots, Conference on Shakespeare, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (June 2009). A Child of Divorce Thanks her Parents: Pragmatism in the Era of the English/Composition Split, Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois (December 2007). Jockies, Lairds, and Scottish Wards: Jony the Horseman in (and out of) the Arbury Humourous Magistrate, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) Annual Convention, Washington, D.C. (April 2009). Post-Boredom Depression After the Old New Historicism, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) Annual Convention, Dallas, TX (March 2008). Keeping Warfare at Arm s Length: Soldiers Reading Shakespeare in the Field, Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) Annual Convention, San Diego, California (March 2007). Contesting from the Margins: Anglo-Scottish History in Holinshed s Chronicles, Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Conference, San Francisco, California (March 2006). Old Playwrights, New Model Armies: Soldiery in the Plays of Shakespeare and William and Margaret Cavendish, Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, San Diego, California (December 2003). The King s Privates: John Fletcher s The Humorous Lieutenant (ca. 1618) and the Corporeal Economics of Soldiery, Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society (PRNS), Los Angeles, California (April 2002). Making Each Subject Clearly See : The Panoptic Breast of Elizabeth I in George Puttenham s Roundel in The Arte of English Poesie (1589), South Central Renaissance Conference (SCRC), College Station, Texas (April 2001). Alice Thornton s Two Bodies: Medical and National Self-Fashioning in The Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton ( ), Texas A&M Interdisciplinary Conference on Language and Literature, College Station, Texas (October 2000). Dissecting Celia: Rhetorical Anatomy in Ben Jonson s Volpone (1607), Fordham Graduate English Association Conference on Malady in Literature. New York, New York (April 2000).

4 TEACHING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, 2006-Present UNDERGRADUATE COURSES English 100, Ways of Reading, 2 Sections (Fall 2008, Spring 2012). English 117, Seminar in Renaissance and 17 th Century Literature, 3 sections (Fall 2009 Spring 2012). English 116, Shakespeare s Later Plays, 5 sections (Spring 2007 Spring 2012). English 41, British Literature Survey I, 2 sections (Spring 2007, Spring 2011). English 115, Shakespeare s Early Plays and Sonnets, 10 sections (Fall 2006 Fall 2010). English 14S, First-Year Connections Seminar, This Hofstra Life, 1 section (Spring 2009). English 195K, Independent Study, The Elizabethan World (Fall 2009). English 195G, Educate 08 Seminar, All the Presidents Books, 1 section (Fall 2008). English 112, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, 1 section (Fall 2007). English 2, Composition, 1 section (Spring 2006). English 1, Composition, 1 section (Fall 2006). GRADUATE COURSES English 291U, Reading Shakespeare After New Historicism, 1 Section (Spring 2011). English 291A, Shakespeare s Wars and Warriors, 3 sections (Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010). English 251B, Independent Study, Gender in Seventeenth-Century Literature, 1 Student (Spring 2010). THESIS COMMITTEES DIRECTOR MA Thesis in English, Dangerously Indifferent: The Condition of the Dickensian Dandy, by Tiffany Olgun, Spring MA Thesis in English, For One Poor Grain or Two : Focusing on Food in William Shakespeare s Plays, by Diana Amaroso, Spring Senior Honors Thesis in English, Enter Pirates: Piracy in Late Elizabethan Drama, by Brendan Barnes, Fall 2010 (Winner of the Undergraduate Research Award). MA Thesis in English, The Voice of Shakespeare s Military Rhetoric, by David Escobar, Spring Senior Honors Thesis in English, Going Beyond Shakespeare: Representations of Jewish Women in Early Modern Literature by Pamela MacDonald, Fall READER Senior Honors Thesis in English, Chaucer s Rose by Catherine Clemente, Spring Senior Honors Thesis in English, Words About the Wife, by Jenna Appelbaum, Spring MA Thesis in Liberal Arts, New College, Dreadful Beauties: Women as Warriors by Claudia McGivney, Spring MA Thesis in English, Ill-Weaved Ambition: The Father-Son Relationship in Shakespeare s Henriad and Elizabethan Society, by Anthony Price, Spring 2009.

5 INSTRUCTOR, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-AUSTIN, UNDERGRADUATE COURSES English 314L, Reading British Women Writers, 1 section (Spring 2000). English 309K, The Rhetoric of Love and Seduction, 5 sections (Fall 1999 Spring 2004). Rhetoric 309S, Critical Reading and Persuasive Writing, 2 sections (Fall 2002, Fall 2003). Rhetoric 306, Rhetoric and Composition, 3 Sections (Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Summer, 2001). GRADUATE COURSES English 398T, Graduate Seminar on Composition Pedagogy, 2 sections (Fall 2000, Fall 2001). (Team-taught with Division of Rhetoric and Composition faculty) INSTRUCTOR, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, UNDERGRADUATE COURSES English 110, First-Year Writing, 3 Sections (Fall 1997, Winter 1997, Spring 1998). OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE SERVICE University of California-Santa Cruz, one week seminar on Dombey and Son, July 29 August 2, (Team-taught with Dickens Universe Faculty) HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY Library Sub-Committee, Faculty Senate (Secretary), Fall 2010 Present. Learning Management Systems Task Force, Faculty Computing Services, Spring ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Department Personnel Committee, English Department, Fall 2008 Present. Outcomes Assessment Committee, English Department, Fall 2008 Present. Ad-Hoc Curriculum Committee, English Department, Spring 2008 Spring Faculty Participant, Admitted Students Day, Fall 2007, Spring UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Graduate Program Committee, Fall 2003 Spring DIVISION OF RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION Curriculum Outcomes Assessment Coordinator, Spring 2002 Summer Curriculum Committee, Fall 2000 Spring Textbook Selection Committee, Rhetoric 309K Course Proposal Committee,

6 RELATED SERVICE AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICE IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Member, Editorial Board, Currents in Electronic Literacy (ISSN ), Assistant to Dr. Davida Charney, 2004 Conference Organizer, Rhetoric Society of America, Spring Secretary, Bibliography and Textual Studies Panel, South Central Modern Language Association, ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS Assistant to the Associate Dean of Distance Learning and Continuing Education (salaried position), University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Director of Lower-Division Writing, Division of Rhetoric and Composition, University of Texas at Austin, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Fall Special Leave, Awarded Spring 2011, for Fall Faculty Research and Development Grant, 2007, 2008, 2009, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN William S. Livingston Fellowship, P.E.O. Scholar s Award, P.E.O., International, Brooke Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Maxine Hairston Prize for Excellence in Teaching, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Dean s Graduate Fellowship, Fall 1996 Spring DATE OF LAST UPDATE 8/8/12