David Wood

Associate Professor

Ph.D., Purdue University (2004)
M.A., University of Alaska Fairbanks (2000)
B.A., Skidmore College (1993)

Teaching Specialties

• English Renaissance drama, poetry, and prose
• Shakespeare
• Milton
• Disablity Studies

David Houston Wood serves as NMU Honors Program Director and Associate Professor of English. He began his position at NMU in Fall 2007.

Having published widely in journals from Shakespeare Yearbook to Renaissance Drama; from Prose Studies to Pedagogy; and from Interfaces to the Blackwell Literary Compass, David is also the author of a monograph entitled Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2009); the co-editor of a special issue of the journal Disability Studies Quarterly, entitled “Disabled Shakespeares” (free online at dsq-sds.org [29.4 Fall 2009]), co-edited with Allison Hobgood of Willamette University; and is currently completing the co-editing of an upcoming collection of essays entitled Recovering Early Modern Disability (Ohio State UP, 2013), also co-edited with Allison Hobgood of Willamette University.

In addition to the Greco-Roman dramatic and epic material he regularly teaches for the “Honors 101— Antiquities” course, David has recently led a number of graduate seminars for NMU’s English Department, as well. Some of his recent courses include:

• “Shakespeare and the Wars of the Roses” (Winter 2013)

• “Literature and Disability Studies” (Fall 2011)

• “Shakespeare’s Marlowe” (Winter 2011)

• “Renaissance Sexualities” (Winter 2009)

• John Milton: Poetics, Polemics, and Politics (Winter 2009)

David lives in Marquette with his wife (Vicki), his three young children (Maddie, Henry, and Nate), and a shaggy, black dog (Shep); he is also a proud winner of The New Yorker’s cartoon caption contest (#111).

Selected Publications:

Monograph Books:

Time, Narrative, and Emotion in Early Modern England. Burlington, Vermont; Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2009.

Book/ Journal Editorship:

Co-Edited with Allison P. Hobgood. Recovering Disability in Early Modern England. [forthcoming, The Ohio State University Press, 2013].

Co-Edited with Allison P. Hobgood. “Disabled Shakespeares.” Disability Studies Quarterly 29.4 (Fall 2009).

Essays and Book Chapters:

“From Oedipus Rex to Middlesex: Teaching a Disability Survey in the Graduate Literary Classroom.” Pedagogy [forthcoming 2014].

“‘Some tardy cripple’: Timing Disability in Richard III.” Richard III: Contemporary Criticism. Continuum Press [forthcoming 2013].

“Ethical Staring.” Co-authored with Allison Hobgood. Recovering Disability in Early Modern England. [forthcoming with The Ohio State University Press, 2013].

“Shakespeare and Disability Studies.” Blackwell Literature-Compass Online (Spring 2011).

 “‘Very Now’: Time and the Intersubjective in Othello.” Shakespeare Yearbook. 19 (Spring 2011).

“‘Fluster’d with flowing cups’: Alcoholism, Humoralism, and the Prosthetic Narrative in Othello.” Disability Studies Quarterly 29.4 (Fall 2009).

“Introduction.” “Disabled Shakespeares.” Co-authored with Allison Hobgood. Disability Studies Quarterly 29.4 (Fall 2009).

“‘Like a Fountain Stirr’d’: Caravaggio, Shakespeare, and the Myth of Narcissus.” Interfaces 25 (2006): 100-25.

“‘[A] deathful suck’: Passions, Potions, and Poisons in Sidney’s Arcadia.” Prose Studies 28.2 (Aug. 2006): 150-167.

“‘He something seems unsettled’: Melancholy, Jealousy, and Subjective Temporality in The Winter’s Tale.” Renaissance Drama 31 (2002): 185-213.