Profile

Frederick Blumberg's research and teaching interests include the literary genres and institutional discourses of early modern Europe. His scholarship focuses on concepts of transgression (in particular, heresy and obscenity) and theories of persuasion. He is currently working on a book about the ecclesiastical censorship of speech during the Renaissance.

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Publications

Articles:
“Poétique de la censure dans le premier Index moderne,” translated by Laure Klein and Mireille Le Breton, Réforme Humanisme Renaissance, No. 68 (June 2009): 75-85.

Encyclopedia Entries:
“Kind” and “Decorum.” The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. Roland Greene, Fourth Edition, Princeton University Press (forthcoming 2012).

Recent Conference Presentations
“Renaissance Authors Addressing Their Books.” Renaissance Society of America, March 2012. Washington, D.C.

“Erotic Disposition: Episode and Permutation.” Modern Language Association of America, January 2012. Seattle, Washington.

“You Are What You Read: A Renaissance Model of Persuasion.” Modern Language Association of America, January 2011. Los Angeles, California.

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Courses taught in 2012-13:

ENGL1030     Dramatic changes: Versions of Renaissance literature
ENGL2079     Shakespeare
ENGL2137     The profession of playwright in early modern England
ENGL3033     Research seminar in English studies