Alexandra Halasz
Associate Professor of English, Emerita
My fields of specialization are early modern English literature and the history of media and the book. I teach core courses in 16th-century English literature, English drama to 1642, Shakespeare, and Old and New Media I teach special topics courses in the history of the book and on Renaissance topics. I'm also actively involved with the Book Arts Workshop studios in Baker Library.
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Department(s)
English and Creative Writing
Education
- B.A. Reed College
- M.A. Johns Hopkins University
- Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
Selected Publications
The Marketplace of Print: Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England; (1997, Reissued 2006).
"The Stationers' Shakespeare" in Shakespeare's Stationers: New Essays in Cultural Bibliography ed. Marta Straznicky (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), 35-58
"Pamphlet Surplus: John Taylor and Subscription Publication," in Print, Manuscript, and Performance: The Changing Relations of the Media in Early Modern England , A Marotti and M Bristol (eds.), (2000).
"So Beloved that Men Use His Picture for Their Signs': Richard Tarlton and the Uses of Sixteenth-Century Celebrity," Shakespeare Studies , 23 (1995) 19-38.