curriculum vitæ
Assistant Professor Eric Leonidas
309 Willard Hall
(860) 832-2750
leonidase@ccsu.edu

Education


Ph.D.  Department of English, New York University, December 2001.
M.A.  Department of English, New York University, May 1997.
B.A.  English and American Literature, Brandeis University, May 1989.
 

Scholarly Interests


English Renaissance Drama
Early Modern Poetics
Satirical Poetry and Prose
Skepticism and Epistemology
 

CCSU Courses


English 205, Survey of British Literature
English 220, Shakespeare
English 333, English Renaissance
English 468, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
 

Recent Projects


"Experience and Experiment in Early Modern Europe," [a link is coming any day]
Texts and Experience on the Renaissance Stage (book-length manuscript)
Visiting Fellow, Renaissance Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
 

Dissertation


Playing the Scourge: Satirical Rhetoric in the Drama of John Marston and Ben Jonson.
Dissertation Advisor: Leonard Barkan. 

Examines the stage-quarrel between Marston and Jonson as a debate over the extent to which conventional poetics require change to represent late Elizabethan moral experience.