Garrett PJ Epp Professor Department of English & Film Studies Humanities Centre 3-5 University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 garrett.epp@ualberta.ca office: HC 4-11

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Academic stuff Degrees PhD, University of Toronto (1988) MA, University of Toronto (1983) BA (Honours), Acadia University (1979)

Teaching and research I have taught at the University of Alberta since 1988, primarily in the fields of early English drama (up to and including Shakespeare), medieval English literature, and queer theory. Other areas of scholarly interest include medieval rhetoric, allegory, the Bible and biblical theatre, Middle Scots literature, contemporary gay theatre, cultural studies, film, and performance theory. I am also interested in the practical aspects of theatre: my sometime company, the Lewditores, has performed both in Edmonton and at early drama festivals in Toronto; productions include Youth (1992), Mankind (1995), and The York Temptation and Fall (1998). I have also taken on administrative roles here, including Associate Chair (Graduate Studies) of English and (from 2004 to 2009) Chair of English & Film Studies. Recent summers spent in the north of France, mostly working with the European Summer Program in Lille, have allowed me to explore some of the ties between medieval England, France, and Flanders, but have also led to a growing interest in cultural history as it relates to Canadian involvement in World War I, and other aspects of this region, which Charles de Gaulle (who was born in Lille) famously dubbed a “fatal avenue.”

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Selected publications

• “To ‘play the Sodomits’: A Query in Five Actions.” In The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory. Ed. Giffney and O’Rourke. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009. 304-331.
• “Christ.” In the Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, vol.1. Ed. Fedwa Malti-Douglas. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 284-286.
• “Doubting Thomas: ‘Womans Witnes’ and the Towneley Thomas Indie.” In‘Bring furth the Pagants’: Essays in Early English Drama Presented to Alexandra F. Johnston. Ed. Klausner and Marsalek.. U of Toronto Press, 2007. 165-180.
• “‘Corected & not playd’: an Unproductive History of the Towneley Plays.” Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 43 (2004), 38-53.
• “Chastity in the Stocks: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis.” In Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing. Ed. Dunnigan, Harker, and Newlyn. Palgrave, 2004. 61-73.
• “Noah’s Wife: The Shaming of the ‘Trew’.”  In Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts.  Ed. Salisbury, Donavin, and Price.  U of Florida P, 2002.  223-241.
• “Ecce Homo.”  In Queering the Middle Ages / Historicizing Postmodernity.  Ed. Kruger and Burger.  U of Minnesota P, 2001.  236-251.
• “John Foxe and the Circumcised Stage.”  Exemplaria 9.2 (1997), 281-313.
• “The Vicious Guise: Effeminacy, Sodomy, and Mankind.”  In Becoming Male in the Middle Ages.  Ed. Cohen and Wheeler.  Garland, 1997.  303-320.
• (with Jean MacIntyre)  “‘Cloathes worth all the rest’: Costumes and Properties.”  In A New History of Early English Drama.  Ed. Cox and Kastan.  Columbia U P, 1997.  269-285.
• “‘Into a womannys lyckenes’: Bale’s personification of Idolatry.” Medieval English Theatre 18 (1998, for 1996), 63-73.
• “Learning to Write With Venus’s Pen: Sexual Regulation in Matthew of Vendôme’s Ars versificatoria.”  In Desire and Discipline. Ed. Murray and Eisenbichler.  U of Toronto P, 1996.  265-279.
• “The Towneley Plays, or, The Hazards of Cycling.”  Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 32 (1993), 121-150.

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Places to go, things to see University of Alberta Department of English & Film Studies the Religious Studies program Medieval and Early Modern Institute My curriculum vitae “Towneley: Recycled Plays”: an online article City of Edmonton webpages NetSERF Medieval Drama links Medieval Drama Links ~ Sydney Higgins’ list Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet Internet Shakespeare Editions SCETI: Furness Shakespeare Library Queer Resources Directory ~ “everything queer” Voice of the Shuttle for Humanities research  theory.org.uk ~ the media theory site

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Garrett PJ Epp· English & Film Studies· Humanities Centre 3-5· University of Alberta· Edmonton· Alberta· Canada· T6G 2E5

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