Contact Information
Biography
Emily George is a part-time lecturer in English at the University of Washington and at South Seattle College. She specializes in early modern drama, theater history, religious history, and textual studies, and is especially interested in representations of religious identity, gender, sexuality, race, and class in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama. Her current book project, Stage Converts: Performing Moral and Religious Change in Early Modern English Drama studies dramatic conversion scenes before, during, and after the Reformation. Her essays and reviews can be found in the Journal for Medieval and Early Modern Cultural Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Early Theatre, and DeConstruct, a Seattle-based collective dedicated to intersectional performance critique.
Research
Selected Research
- George, Emily. “The Devil at the Edge of This Book: Intertextual Ecologies of Early Modern Crime Narratives.” Early Theatre 26, no. 2 (2023): 147–63. doi:10.12745/et.26.2.5528.
- George, Emily C. “Half-Persuaded Converts and Partial Turns in Fletcher’s The Island Princess.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 21, no. 3 (2021): 65–94. doi:10.1353/jem.2021.0019.
- George, Emily Carole. Stage Converts: Performing Moral and Religious Change in Early Modern English Drama. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.Adviser: Jeffrey Todd Knight