Aaron W. Kitch
Assistant Professor of English
Fall 2008
- Race-ing the Renaissance (AFRS 225)
- The Arts of Power (ENG 317)
- Advanced Independent Study and Honors in English (ENG 401)
| Phone | (207) 725-3483 |
| Title | Assistant Professor |
| Department | ENGLISH |
| Work Location | 209 Massachusetts Hall |
| akitch@bowdoin.edu |
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Aaron Kitch earned a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Yale before taking an M.A. in English literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, where he wrote his dissertation on Renaissance drama under the direction of David Bevington, Carla Mazzio, and Richard Strier.
He has been at Bowdoin since 2002, teaching courses in Renaissance literature, the history of the book, the idea of utopia, literature and metamorphosis, and race in early modern English literature and culture. He organizes the Medieval and Renaissance Faculty Seminar at Bowdoin and has recently received a grant from the Mellon Foundation to extend the interdisciplinary research seminar to Colby and Bates.
Professor Kitch has published essays on Renaissance literature, economics, and culture in journals such as Renaissance Drama, Studies in English Literature, and Religion and Literature. He has recently completed a manuscript entitled Poetry and Political Economy in Early Modern England.
Research interests
Economics and literature; Early modern drama; genre in relation to social and political history; the history of printing.
Fellowships
Fletcher Family Research award, Bowdoin College (2007)
Francis Bacon Fellowship, Huntington Library (2005-06)
Short-Term Fellowship, Newberry Library (2006)
Publications
"Shylock's Sacred Nation," Shakespeare Quarterly 59 (2008): 131-55. (Access article in PDF)
"Medwall's 'Condycion': Fulgens and Lucrece and the New Tudor Drama," Cahiers Elisabethains 68 (2005):1-8
"Printing Bastards: Monstrous Birth Broadsides in Early Modern England," in Parenting and Printing in Early Modern England, ed. Douglas Brooks, Women and Gender in the Early Modern World series (London: Ashgate, 2005), 221-36.
"Bastards and Broadsides in The Winter's Tale," Renaissance Drama 30 (2001): 43-71. (Access article in PDF)
"The Character of Credit and the Problem of Belief in Middleton's City Comedies," SEL - Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 47:2 (Spring 2007): 403-426. (Access article in PDF)
"Golden Muse: Protestantism, Mercantilism, and the Uses of Ovid in Marlowe's Hero and Leander," Religion and Literature 38:3 (Autumn 2006): 157-176. (Access article in PDF)
Selected Presentations
Organizer (with Blair Hoxby) of "Religion and Economics in Early Modern England" seminar, Shakespeare Association of America, Dallas, TX (March 13-15, 2008)
"Mimetic Rivalry: Jonson's Late Masques and the Civic Pageants of Munday, Middleton, and Dekker," MLA, Chicago, IL (December 28, 2007)
"Aesthetics and Renaissance Historicisms: Afterimages of Empirical Life" Renaissance Society of America (March 22-24, 2007)
"The Religious Politics of Female Sexuality in the English Epyllion, 1588-1603" Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (February 15-17, 2007)
"Shylock's 'Sacred Nation': Citizenship, Sovereignty, and Merciful Capitalism in The Merchant of Venice"
Shakespeare Association of America, Bermuda (March 17 - 19, 2005)
"Believing in Middleton: The Credit Economy of the City Comedies"
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Orlando, FL (November 17 - 21, 2004)
"Henry Medwall and the New 'Condycion' of Tudor Drama"
Shakespeare Association of America, New Orleans (April 7 - 11, 2004)
"Gutenberg Galaxy Revisited: Print, Drama, and the English Reformation"
Faculty Workshop, Bowdoin College (November, 2003)
"Paper Stages: John Rastell's Adaptation of Fernando de Rojas's Celestina for the English Stage," Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
(SHARP) panel, Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, (March 27 - 29, 2003)
"The Stationers' Company and the Regulation of the Broadside Ballad, 1557-1585"
Midwest Modern Language Association, Cleveland, OH (November 1 - 3, 2001)
"The News at Court: Jonson's Late Masques"
Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library, Chicago (June 7 - 9, 2001)
"'The Well-Spoken Nobody': The Printed Broadside and Early Modern Literacy"
Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C. (2000)
"Timely Matter: The Sixteenth-Century Broadside Ballad"
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, New Orleans, LA (November 17, 2000)