Associate Professor of English, Department of Humanities, Eastman School of Music
PhD State University of New York at Buffalo
Shakespeare, early modern cultural studies, literary theory
Research/Writing interests
A specialist in Shakespeare and early modern studies, Jonathan Baldo regularly offers courses in Elizabethan and Jacobean Shakespeare and Shakespeare’s history plays. A secondary interest in twentieth-century literature and culture has led him to develop courses in modern and contemporary poetry and film studies, and seminars on James Joyce, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison at the Eastman School of Music. At the River Campus, he has offered graduate courses in the romantic movement and the theory of the novel for the departments of English and Modern Languages and Cultures, respectively.
He is currently completing a book on nationhood and memory in Shakespeare. His other recent work links parliamentary and theatrical representation in Shakespeare’s history plays.
Selected publications
- “'A rooted sorrow': Scotland's Unusable Past,” in Macbeth: New Critical Essays, ed. Nick Moschovakis, Routledge 2008, 88-103
- “‘Into a thousand parts’: Representing the Nation in Henry V,” in English Literary Renaissance 38(2008), 55-82
- “The Greening of Will Shakespeare,” in Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 3.2 (spring/summer 2008) [online journal]
- The Unmasking of Drama: Contested Representation in Shakespearean Tragedy, Wayne State 1996
- “Forgetting Elizabeth in Henry VIII,” in Resurrecting Elizabeth I in Seventeenth-Century England, ed. Elizabeth H. Hageman and Katherine Conway, Fairleigh Dickinson 2007, 132-48
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“Necromancing the Past in Henry VIII,” in English Literary Renaissance 34.3 (autumn 2004), 359-86
- “Solitude as an Effect of Language in Gabriel García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad,” in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Modern Critical Interpretations Series, ed. Harold Bloom, Chelsea House 2003
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“Wars of Memory in Henry V,” in Shakespeare Quarterly 47 (1996), 132-59
- “The Reader on Trial: Or, Is Reading Necessarily an Injudicious Act?” in Critical Essays on Franz Kafka, ed. Ruth V. Gross, G.K. Hall 1990
Teaching
Courses in Shakespeare and early modern England, modern fiction, modern and contemporary poetry, film studies
Recent courses
- The Elizabethan Shakespeare (spring 2009)
- The Jacobean Shakespeare (spring 2008)
- Faulkner (fall 2007)
- James Joyce (spring 2007)
- Kafka and His Heirs (spring 2007)
- Modern American Poetry (fall 2008)
- Contemporary American Poetry (spring 2009)
- Cinema and Society: An Introduction to Hollywood Film
Honors and activities
- Four-time winner, open submissions competition, Shakespeare Association of America and the International Shakespeare Association
- Senior Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2000-01
