Liz Fox, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
EDUCATION
2019 PhD, English Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dissertation: Theater of Exchange: The Cosmopolitan Stage of Jacobean London
Adam Zucker (chair), Marjorie Rubright, Jane Degenhardt, Monika Schmitter
2012 MA, English Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2006 BA, English Literature and Drama, cum laude, Ithaca College
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2020-present Managing Editor, English Literary Renaissance
2019-present Arts & Academic Programs Coordinator, Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance
Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
PUBLICATIONS
EDITED COLLECTION
2023
Teaching Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration, Spotlight on Shakespeare Series, Routledge (Under
Contract).
ESSAYS
2023
”Women’s Secret Herbal Knowledge” in Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World ed. Kristen Poole.
2020
“Cosmopolitan Desire and Profitable Performance in The Dutch Courtesan.” Early Theatre, 23.1 (2020), 141-162.
2019
“‘These Very Pictures Will Surmount My Wealth’: Aesthetic and Economic Competitions in Thomas
Heywood’s If You Know Not Me, II.” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 32 ( 2019), 142-162.
Forthcoming
“Shakespeare, Popular Culture, and the Intergenerational Classroom” in Teaching Shakespeare Beyond the
Major eds. Tyler Sasser and Kelly Neil.
REVIEWS
Hamlet Globe to Globe: Two Years, 190,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play, by Dominic Dromgoole.
Kritikon Litterarum, 45:1/2 (2018), 162-166.
Producing Early Modern London: A Comedy of Urban Space, 1598-1616, by Kelly J. Stage. Kritikon
Litterarum, 46:1/2 (2019), 129-133.
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, & GRANTS
2021 Honorable Mention, Best Interpretive Essay Published in Early Theatre volumes 22 & 23.
2020-2021 Sustainability, Innovation, and Engagement Fund Grant.
2018-2020 Walter T. Chmielewski Fellowship, English Literary Renaissance
2019-2020 Investigator, Mass Humanities Grant, “Op-Eds and Public Humanities.”
2019 Folger Institute Grant-in-Aid. Intersecting the Sexual Symposium. Leader, Mario DiGangi.
Folger Shakespeare Library. Nov 14-16, 2019
2018 Dean’s Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School
2018 Travel Grant for SAA Annual Conference, Department of English
2018 Travel Grant for Annual Conference, Northeast Modern Language Association
2017 Competitive Dissertation Fellowship, Department of English
2017 Travel Grant for SAA Annual Conference, Department of English
2015 Travel Grant for Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Department of English
2014 Charles A. Peters Prize, Best Graduate Essay on Renaissance Literature
2012 Folger Institute Grant-in-Aid.. Researching the Archive Seminar. Leader, Natasha Korda. Folger
Shakespeare Library. Spring 2012.
LEADERSHIP IN THE PROFESSION
2023 Roundtable Organizer, Carceral Shakespeare. Shakespeare Association of America.
Minneapolis, MN.
2022 Roundtable Organizer, Shakespeare Inside and Out: A Conversation About Prison Education.
Renaissance Society of America. Dublin, Ireland.
2021 Seminar Organizer, Teaching Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Shakespeare
Association of America. Austin, TX.
2020-2021 Organizer, Grounded Knowledge Workshop Series. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary
Renaissance Studies
2020 Panel Organizer, The Sophisticated Stage: A Study in Object-Human Relations. Renaissance
Society of America—Cancelled/Covid.
2019-2020 Organizer, Field Notes: A Premodernist Skillshare. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary
Renaissance Studies
2019-2020 Co-Researcher, “Renaissance of the Earth” Strategic Five-Year Interdisciplinary Programming
Initiative for Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
2019 Organizer, Annual Collins Lecture, Department of English. Speaker, Paul Yachnin, Tomlinson
Professor of Shakespeare Studies, McGill University
2019 Organizer, ShaxMoot: A Literature and Law Workshop
2017 Curriculum Development, “Literary Genres,” Bay Path University
2016 Panelist, “Area Exam Orientation,” English Graduate Organization
Panelist, “Course Proposals & Syllabus Design,” English Graduate Organization
2015-present Orientation Leader, Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities
2011-2012 Graduate Conference Committee, Forces at Play: Bodies, Power, and Spaces.
ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE
2006-2009 Literary Manager, Mark Christian Subias Agency
Reviewed, managed, and organized client scripts for stage, television, and film
Copyedited client scripts for studio submission
Organized private staged readings for client work in progress
2008-2009 Literary Assistant, New York Stage & Film, Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College
Collaborated with playwrights on the development of new work
Oversaw daily script updates for 17 productions, workshops, and staged readings
Served as dramaturg for seasonal workshops and readings
Launched NYC Fall Reading Series
Worked with over 350 professional artists and performers
2009 Lark Theater
Served on review committee for Playwrights of New York Fellowship
INVITED TALKS
2023 “Teaching Shakespeare in a Women’s Prison.” Center for Humanities in an Urban Environment.
Florida International University. Miami, FL.
2020 “Active Learning & Engagement.” Teaching Academy. Graduate Orientation for the Office
of Professional Development. Amherst, MA.
2019 “Staging Innovation: Novelty and Profit in London Comedy.” Mahindra Humanities Center,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
2019 “Sex and the City Stage: Whore Plays and Cosmopolitan Desires.” The Refinery. A double
plenary with Stephen Spiess, Babson College. Amherst, MA.
2019 “Shakespeare’s Theater.” ENG221. UMass Amherst.
2016 “Cultural Gate-keeping and the American Dream in August Wilson’s Fences.” PHIL101. Bard
College Clemente Course.
2016 “‘I Do Perceive Here a Divided Duty’: Binary Language in Othello.” ENG221. UMass Amherst.
2015 “Spectacle and Wonder in The Tempest.” ENG237. Holyoke Community College.
2015 “Lies the Protagonist Told Me: Morality and Lying in Death of a Salesman.” PHIL101. Bard
College Clemente Course.
2015 “Meta-theatricality and Magic in The Tempest.” ENG221. UMass Amherst.
2014 “‘Quaint Device[s]’: Dance, Travel, and Gower in Pericles.” ENG221. UMass Amherst.
2013 “Aristotle’s Unities and Shakespeare’s Spectacle in Pericles.” ENG221. November 2013.
PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
2021 “Taming the Shrew: The Power of Submission and the Politics of Equity in Prison Education.” Ohio Valley
Shakespeare Conference. Toledo, OH.
2020 “Reevaluating Impurity: Satin, Sex, and Artifice in The Honest Whore.” The Sophisticated Stage: A Study
in Object-Human Relations. Renaissance Society of America. Philadelphia, PA— Canceled/Covid.
“‘A new region here’: Producing Difference through London’s Commercial Encounters.” New Worlds /
New Approaches. Shakespeare Association of America. Denver, CO.
2019 “Seductive Performance and Cosmopolitan Desire in The Dutch Courtesan.” Strangers and Aliens in
London and Toronto: Sex, Religion, and Xenophobia in Marston’s The Dutch Courtesan. University of
Toronto.
Shakespeare on our Hands. Shakespeare Association of America, Workshop. Washington, D.C.
2018 “World City and City Stage: Imagining Cosmopolitanism in Jonson’s The Staple of News.” Northeast
Modern Language Association. Pittsburgh, PA.
“Sex and the City Stage: Cosmopolitan Taste and Foreign Whores.” Early Modern Cultures of Taste
Seminar. Shakespeare Association of America. Los Angeles, CA.
“Beat Biters and Scene Stealers: Teaching Shakespeare as Popular Culture.” Teaching Shakespeare in
and beyond the classroom. Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies. Tuscaloosa, AL.
2017 “The Job Market.” New England American Studies Association Colloquium, Roundtable. Boston, MA.
Audience Engagement on the Shakespearean Stage. Shakespeare Association of America, Workshop.
Atlanta, GA.
2013 “Audience Response as Spectacle in John Marston’s The Dutch Courtesan." Kinney Center for
Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. Amherst, MA.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Winter 2016 Global Adaptations: Film and Literature (Online)
Fall 2015 History of Western Drama
2010-2013, Fall 2016, 2017-2018 College Writing
Fall 2011 Basic Writing
Bard Microcollege, Holyoke, MA
Spring 2021, Fall 2022 Shakespeare: Gender, Rage, & Invisible Labor
Wesleyan University, Center for Prison Education
Summer 2023 Place, Identity, & the Literature of Belonging
Spring 2022 Shakespeare: Gender, Rage, & Invisible Labor
Fall 2020 City Comedy: Civic Identity & the Politics of Belonging
Fall 2019 Shakespeare: Gender, Rage, & Invisible Labor
Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Spring 2018 Shakespeare & Adaptation: Page, Stage, & Kitsch
Bard College, Clemente Course in the Humanities, Springfield, MA
2015-present Introduction to Literature: Family Drama
Bay Path University
Spring 2017, 2017-2020 Literary Genres (Online)
Spring 2017, 2018-2020 Research & Writing in Discipline (Online)
Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018 World Literature (Online)
Springfield College
Fall 2017 College Writing I
2016-2017 Writing Studio
TEACHING ASSISTANT
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Fall 2013, 2014-2015, Spring 2016 Shakespeare
Spring 2014 Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
2020-Present Co-organizer, Prison Education Initiative, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2018-2020 Editorial Assistant, English Literary Renaissance vols. 48.3-50.3
2017-2018 Practicum Director, Writing Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2012-2013 Mentor for New Teachers, Writing Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
Shakespeare Association of America
Renaissance Society of America
LANGUAGES
German—Speaking: Intermediate; Reading: Translation proficient
Italian—Basic Reading
French—Basic Reading