Rebecca Totaro
Professor of English 

Rebecca Totaro is Professor of English and author of Suffering Suffering in Paradise: The Bubonic

Plague in English Literature from More to Milton (Duquesne 2005), an examination of hope born

out of plague-time trauma and displayed in literary form. A member of the Folger Institute Year-Long 

Colloquium “Vernacular Health and Healing” (2007-2008), Totaro held a short term fellowship at

the Folger Shakespeare Library for her project  “Volatile Emissions: Meteorology and Physiology in

Early Modern England,” and she is editor  of The Plague in Print: Essential Elizabethan Sources,

1558-1603, a collection of interdisciplinary  plague writings transcribed with critical commentary for Duquesne Univer-

sity Press (2009). She has also co-edited Representing the Plague in Early Modern England, part of the Routledge

Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture series, and she will co-direct a seminar entitled “’Must I Remember’?:

Trauma and Memory in Early Modern England” for the 2011 World Shakespeare Congress in Prague. In Fort Myers,

Totaro is leader of the monthly novel discussion group at the local Barnes and Noble, and at the university, she serves as

faculty advisor for the Sigma Tau Delta chapter and as coordinator for the English Program.

Books

The Plague In Print

Representing the Plague in Early Modern England

Suffering in Paradise (Reviews)

Curriculum Vitae

Novel Night Updates

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