Steve Schillinger
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
Stephen Schillinger studies early modern literature, with a focus on early print culture and its influence on dramatic literature and rhetoric. His research examines how early writing technologies shaped interpretive strategies, particularly in plays performed in public playhouses. He is currently working on two projects: one on character naming, allusion, and genre play in early modern drama, and another on reception history and the rhetoric of war as they relate to The Big Lebowski, with Hamlet as a comparative touchstone.
Schillinger has published on Christopher Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris and the anonymous 1594 Jack Straw. His article “Conversations with Shylock: Audience Perception, Textual Control and Misreading in The Merchant of Venice” appeared in Texas Studies in Literature and Language (2016). His essay “‘Widow Dido’ Fighting the Footnotes: How to Teach Shakespeare’s Allusional Strategy Using 2.1 of The Tempest” was published in The Ashgate Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature (2017).
Recent Courses Taught
Renaissance Outsiders
Distinctions
- 2013 Finalist: Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Vermont
Appointed to the Faculty
2018Educational Background
Ph.D., University of Washington
M.A., University of Vermont
B.A., Bishop’s University
