Adam Kitzes

ENG 271: Reading and Writing about Texts

ENG 272: Literary Criticism and Literary Theory

ENG 301: Survey of English Literature I

ENG 315: Shakespeare

ENG 415: Topics include Studies in Genre, Early Modern Literature

ENG 500: Introduction to Graduate Studies

ENG 510: Literary Theory

Early Modern English Literature

Shakespeare

Literary Reception Histories

English Literature and American Cultural History

Literature and the University

"Blackface Shakespeare: Thomas D. Rice and the Return of Jim Crow as Otello." Journal of American Studies (2024)

"History in Understanding Poetry." Essays in Criticism 72.4 (2022): 511-31.

"'And Now they Range': Early Modern Poems and their Survival." Religion and the Arts 25 (2021): 187-96.

"Literary History and National Character in Washington Irving's Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon." Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 52 (2019): 11-42.

"'The Game in Chase': Conflicting Controversies in the Production of Sir John Oldcastle." Shakespeare 16.3 (2020): 288-300.

"Polemic and Fiction in Anthony Munday's English Roman Life." Renaissance Studies 31.3 (2017): 444-61.

"John Dennis and the Shakespeare-Elizabeth Anecdote: The Comical Gallant and the Reception of The Merry Wives of Windsor." Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research 28 (2013): 45-70.

"Adapting Measure for Measure to the Bowdler Family Shakespeare." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 13.2 (2013): 43-68.

"Robert Burton." The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, Garrett A. Sullivan Jr. and Alan Stewart, eds (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2012): 134-38.

B.A. Brandeis University (1993)

M.A. University of Illinois -- Chicago (1996)

PhD University of Wisconsin -- Madison (2003)