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Colby Gordon

Assistant Professor of English on the Helen Taft Manning Professorship of British History
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Department/Subdepartment: 
Department of Literatures in English
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: 
cgordon1 [at] brynmawr.edu
Phone: 
610-526-5413
Building: 
English House
Room: 
211

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.

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