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Kenneth S. Jackson

Associate Professor

Office: 10411, 5057 Woodward
Hours: By Appointment
Phone: (313) 577- 7717
E-mail: jacksken@aol.com

Area of Specialization
Shakespeare, History of Psychiatry, History of Charity and Early Modern Poor Relief

Education

PhD., English, with distinction, Loyola University of Chicago, 1997
MA., English, Northwestern University, 1990
BA., English and Psychology, Michigan State University, 1988

Representative Publications

*"'One Wish' or the Possibility of the Impossible": God, the Gift, and Derrida in Timon of Athens." Forthcoming in 2001 in Shakespeare Quarterly.

*"Bethlem and Bridewell in The Honest Whore Plays." Forthcoming in 2003 in Studies in English Literature.

*Review Essay of Michael O'Connell's The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theater in Early Modern England (New York: Oxford UP, 2000). Forthcoming in The Sixteenth Century Journal.

*"I know not/ Where I did lodge last night?": King Lear and the Search for Bethlem (Bedlam) Hospital. English Literary Renaissance 30.2 Spring (2000): 213-40.

*Review Essay of Huston Diehl's Staging Reform

*"Bedlam, The Changeling, The Pilgrim, and the Protestant Critique of Catholic Good Works. Philological Quarterly Fall (1995): 373-93.

 


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