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Adam Rzepka
Associate Professor, English, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Office:
- Dickson Hall 309
- Email:
- rzepkaa@montclair.edu
- Phone:
- 973-655-7646
- Degrees:
- BA, Harvard University
- PhD, University of Chicago
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I research early modern literature and performance, and particularly the uses that they make of psychological and other proto-scientific models from the period. I've published book chapters on appeals to "experience" in Shakespeare and on atomist poetics in sixteenth-century England; articles about imagination as a faculty of the soul in A Midsummer Night's Dream and on apprehension in Hamlet have appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly and Shakespeare Studies. I am currently working on a book exploring what "experience" meant in Shakespeare's world, titled "Shakespeare, Experience and the Ends of Early Modern Discourse." At MSU, I teach courses in Shakespeare, early English drama, graduate-level research, and critical theory.
Specialization
Early modern drama, literature, and culture; performance and reception studies; history of science, especially physiology, psychology, and atomism; critical theory.
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Office Hours
Fall
- Monday
- 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- And by appointment, including Zoom
- Thursday
- 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- And by appointment, including Zoom