Rebecca Totaro
Professor
of English
Rebecca Totaro specializes in the literature and culture of early modern England,
with an emphasis on writing produced in
response to regular visitations of the bubonic
plague and other environmental and physiological disturbances. Recipient of
the 2010 Monroe Kirk Spears Award from SEL
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 for “Securing Sleep in Hamlet,”
Totaro is General Editor of Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies, a book series with
Duquesne University Press.
Among Totaro’s recently published essays is a
study of meteorology,
physiology, and the act of cursing in Shakespeare’s first tetralogy (in
Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England [2010]), and she serves on
the editorial advisory boards for
English Language Notes
and Early Modern Studies Journal.
Books and Reviews
Forthcoming: The Plague Epic in Early Modern England:
Reviews Reviews Reviews Heroic Measures, 1603-1721
Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies – An Invitation
Curriculum Vitae English Language Notes Early Modern Studies Journal
EMAIL PHONE
rtotaro@fgcu.edu 239-590-7180
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Professor of English
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