Rebecca Totaro
Associate Professor of English
Rebecca Totaro is Associate Professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast
University, where she teaches early modern literature with a focus on
Shakespeare, science, and the body. Author of Suffering in Paradise:
The Bubonic Plague in English Literature from More to Milton (2005),
she was a participant in the Folger Institute Year-Long Colloquium,
"Vernacular Health and Healing" directed by Mary E. Fissell (2006-07)
and has held a short-term fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library,
conducting research for a book project examining the relationship between meteorology and
physiology in early modern England. Editor of The Plague in Print: Essential Elizabethan
Sources (in review) and an invited contributor to The Encyclopedia of Plague, Pestilence,
and Pandemic, Totaro has joined with Margaret Healy to edit a collection of scholarly
articles, A Plague on Both Your Houses: Plague, Crisis, and Creativity in Early Modern
England. Leader of the monthly Novel Night at the Fort Myers at the Barnes and Noble,
she also serves on the Literacy Volunteers of Lee County board of governors.
Curriculum Vitae Novel Night Updates
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