J. Caitlin Finlayson, Ph.D.

Professor of English
Caitlin Finlayson
College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters
Language, Culture, and the Arts
schedule By appointment only
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Teaching Areas:

English

Research Areas:

English Literature, Humanities

Biography and Education

Education

Ph.D. University of Toronto; M.A. University of Virginia; B.A. Vassar College.

Selected Publications

Books:

Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in early Modern London (2020). Caitlin Finlayson. 

Two London Lord Mayor鈥檚 Shows by John Squire (1620) and John Taylor (1634). Ed. J. Caitlin Finlayson. Collections XVII. Oxford: Malone Society, 2015. 75-150.

Articles:

鈥淛ohn Taylor, the Self-Made Poet, on Merit and Social Mobility in Mercantile London.鈥 English Studies 98.2 (2017): 120-136.

鈥淜illing Desdemona: Staging Sexual Violence in Othello Graphic Novels.鈥 Drawn from the Classics: Essays on Graphic Adaptations of Literature. Ed. Stephen Tabachnick and Esther Saltzman. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2015, 46-59. 

鈥淭homas Heywood鈥檚 Londini Artium & Scientiarum Scaturigo (1632): the Huntington and Worcester Copies 鈥 Two Issues or Variant States?鈥 The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 108:3 (2014): 325-341. 

鈥淭homas Heywood鈥檚 Panegyric to London鈥檚 鈥楿niversity鈥 in Londini Artium & Scientiarum Scaturigo or Londons Fountain of Arts and Sciences (1632)鈥 The London Journal 39.2 (2014):1-18.

鈥淪quire, John (c.1587-1653).鈥 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 

鈥淛acobean Foreign Policy, London鈥檚 Civic Polity and Squire鈥檚 Lord Mayor鈥檚 Show, The Tryumphs of Peace (1620).鈥 Studies in Philology 110.3 (Summer 2013): 584-610.

鈥溾極riginally Shakespear鈥檚鈥: Adaptation, Critique and All for Love and The Tempest.鈥 Approaches to Teaching John Dryden. Eds. Lisa Zunshine and Jayne Lewis. New York: MLA, 2013. 132-139. 

鈥淢ercantilism and the Path to Spiritual Salvation in Thomas Heywood鈥檚 Londini Emporia (1633).鈥 English Studies 91.8 (2010): 838-860. 

鈥淛ohn Squire: The Unknown Author of The Tryumphs of Peace, the London Lord Mayor鈥檚 Show for 1620.鈥 Neophilologus 94.3 (2010): 531-539. 

鈥淭he Boundaries of Genre: Translating Shakespeare in Johnston and Weldele鈥檚 Julius.鈥 Teaching the Graphic Novel. Ed. Stephen Tabachnick. New York: MLA, 2009. 188-199.

鈥淢edieval Sources for Keatsian Creation in La Belle Dame sans Merci.鈥 Philological Quarterly 79.2 (2000): 225-247.

鈥淭he Garden of Plentie in Stephen Harrison鈥檚 The Arches of Triumph and the 1604 Royal Entry for James I,鈥 Ritual and Ceremony from Late-Medieval Europe to Early America. Folger Shakespeare Library, May 2011. Web.

Academic Theatre Reviews:

鈥淢acbeth Polish Song of the Goat Theatre (Teatr Piesn Kozla).鈥 Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship 29.3 (2011): 442-447. 

鈥淭he Tempest: Re-imagined for everyone aged six and over Open Air Theatre at Regent鈥檚 Park, London.鈥 Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship 28.2 (2010): 291-297. 

鈥淢uch Ado About Nothing Shakespeare Dallas.鈥 Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship 25.3 (2007): 119-122.