English Department Faculty
Loren Blinde
Visiting Assistant Professor
Educational Background:
B.A. College of William and Mary
M.A. Kansas State University
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Recent courses:
English 211, British Literary Traditions: Insiders and Outsiders
English 185, Seminar on Exposition and Argument: The Environment
English 231, Intro to Poetry
Research Areas:
Loren Blinde specializes in early modern British literature and culture. Her current projects include an examination of rumor in early modern English drama and an investigation of kenotic impulse and the problem of Christological mimesis in seventeenth-century devotional poetry.
Recent publications and presentations:
“Rumored History in Shakespeare's 2 Henry IV,” forthcoming in English Literary Renaissance (ELR) 38.1(Winter 2008).
Review of Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage by Gail Kern Paster, Comitatus, A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 36(2005) 274-76.
Review of Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England by Sujata Iyengar, forthcoming in Comitatus, A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 38(2007).
“Popular Messages: Rumor in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.” The Popular: Eighth Annual Southland Conference, UCLA. May 20, 2005.
“Balancing Research and Teaching at the University.” Faculty Panel, UCLA, March 7, 2005.
“Moving From Rumors to Humors in 2 Henry IV.” 14th Annual CSU Shakespeare Symposium, CSU Long Beach, November 19-20, 2004.
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