BGSU English Department

Stephannie Gearhart, Associate Professor

stephsg@bgsu.edu

324 East Hall
419-372-6841

Degrees and Institutions:

Ph.D. English, Lehigh University, 2004
M.A. English, Lehigh University, 2000
B.A. English (Honors), Bowling Green State University, 1998

Courses Regularly Taught: English 2010 (Introduction to Literature); English 2640 (British Literature Survey, Part I); English 3010/3010H (Shakespeare); English 3850 (Shakespeare and Film); English 4010/4010H (Adaptations of Shakespeare); English 4060/4060H (Non Shakespearean Renaissance Drama); English 4200/4200H (Contemporary British Literature)

Area: Early Modern British Literature, Restoration Literature, Contemporary British Literature

Research Interests: Age relations in early modern English literature and culture. Early modern English drama. Cultural Studies and New Historicism. Shakespeare and adaptation. 

Recent Publications:

"Lear's Daughters, Adaptation, and the Calculation of Worth," Forthcoming in Borrowers and Lenders, 7.2, Fall/Winter 2012.

“Only He Would Have the Temerity to Rewrite Shakespeare”: Douglas Hickox’s Theatre of Blood as Adaptation” Literature/Film Quarterly 39:2 (2011): 116-127.

“‘The More There Is To See’: Another Look at James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late,” Scottish Literary Review 2.1 (2010): 77-94.  

“‘Will in Overplus’: A Review of Shakespeare Biographies,”  Quidditas, 30 (2009): 162-201.

“‘Take My Part’: Using Generational Conflict to Teach King Lear,” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, 16:1 (Spring 2009): 91-105. 

“[F]aint and imperfect stamps”: The Problem with Adaptations of Shakespeare for Children Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 27 (2007): 44-68. 

Work in Progress:

           Drama and the Politics of Generational Conflict in Shakespeare’s England.  [book manuscript in progress.]

          “These are Modern Times”: Macbeth, Nostalgia, and the 1970s in Billy Morrissette’s Scotland, PA [article in progress]