photograph by Patrick Hinely

Holly Pickett, Assistant Professor
(on leave 2008-09)

Department of English
Payne Hall 2B
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 458-8078
email: picketth@wlu.edu

Education

Ph.D., English, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005
M.A., English, University of California, Los Angeles, 2001
B.A., English (Classics minor), summa cum laude, Millsaps College, 1998

Research Interests

Shakespeare, medieval and early modern drama, history of drama, religious identities and controversies, representations of religious difference. Professor Pickett will be pursuing her research in England in summer 2007, supported by a Newberry Library/British Academy Fellowship for Study in Great Britain.

Teaching

English 105—Composition and Literature
English 250—British Literature: Medieval and Early Modern
English 252—Shakespeare
English 318—Medieval and Renaissance Drama
English 319—Shakespeare and Marlowe
English 320—Shakespearean Genres

Seminar and Capstone Topics

English 299—Love and Religion in Early Modern Drama
English 413—Drama and Performance Criticism

Selected Publications

“Dramatic Nostalgia and Spectacular Conversion in Dekker and Massinger’s The Virgin Martyr.” SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (forthcoming, Spring 2009).

Review of Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing and Conversion: Old Worlds and New, ed. Kenneth Mills and Anthony Grafton, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 35 (2004): 205-08.

Review of The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe, by Daniel Goffman, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 34 (2003): 232-34.

Review of The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village, by Eamon Duffy, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 33 (2002): 188-91.

Work in Progress

The Drama of Serial Conversion in Renaissance England (book manuscript)

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