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Raphael Falco
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Raphael Falco is a Professor of English. He received his B.A. and his Masters degrees from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from New York University. His books include Conceived Presences: Literary Genealogy in Renaissance England (University of Massachusetts Press, 1994), Charismatic Authority in Early Modern English Tragedy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), and Charisma and Myth (Continuum, forthcoming). His articles on literary history, Neo-Latin poetics, modern poetry, and intellectual culture have appeared both as book chapters and in a wide range of journals including Modern Philology, Shakespeare Studies, Criticism, Soundings, and Theory, Culture, and Society. He has recently edited the Shakespeare Studies Forum, "Is There Character After Theory?" Representative recent and forthcoming articles include: "Arbitrary Cause," Diacritics 35 (2005): 1-13 [issued 2007]; "Marsilio Ficino and Vatic Myth," MLN (Italian Issue) 122 (2007): 101-22; "Tragedy in Retrospect: Hamlet's Narrative Infrastructure," The Shakespearean International Yearbook 7 (2007): 123-39; "The Erotic Sacrament: Max Weber and Georges Bataille," Max Weber Studies 7 (2007):13-36; and "Women, Genealogy, and Composite Monarchy in Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion," ELR (forthcoming). In 2005, Professor Falco was awarded a Folger Institute Fellowship to conduct research on his project, Cultural Genealogy in Early Modern Discourse, at the Folger Shakespeare Library. He is also the UMBC campus representative to the Central Executive Committee of the Folger Library. Professor Falco is Director of the English Department Honors Program. He teaches courses in early modern literature and culture, as well as in modern poetry and contemporary culture. Among his seminar topics are Renaissance humanism, sixteenth-century courtliness, colonialism and literature, Biblical themes in early modern literature, John Milton, modern poetry, and Bob Dylan. |
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