Assistant Professor of English on the Helen Taft Manning Professorship of British History
Department/Subdepartment:
Email:
cgordon1 [at] brynmawr.edu
Phone:
610-526-5413
Building:
English House
Room:
211
On leave:
2019-20
Areas of Focus:
Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, trans studies, queer theory, law and literature, religion and literature.
Detailed Biography:
Colby Gordon specializes in English Renaissance literature, with research and teaching interests in global Shakespeares; law, architecture, and religion and literature; and gender and queer theory. Selections from his work have been published in multiple journals, including articles on bleeding Eucharists and host desecration narratives in Genre; soft architecture and queer futurity in Antony and Cleopatra in postmedieval; Carl Schmitt, Sianne Ngai, and aesthetics in the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies; and, with Julia Lupton, a piece on Shakespeare and design theory in English Studies.