Thomas A King

Title

Associate Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies

English

Expertise

17th- and 18th-century literary and cultural studies; performance studies; gender and sexuality studies.

Degrees

Northwestern University, Ph.D.

University of Missouri, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	tking@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2149
Office:	Rabb Graduate Center, 244

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Awards and Honors

Davis Faculty Fellow (2006)

Hewlett-Packard/Women's Studies Interdisciplinary Course Development Grant (2004)

Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer '69 and Joseph Neubauer Prize for Excellent in Teaching and Mentoring (2004)

Mazer Award for Faculty Research in Creative Arts, Humanities and Social Science, Brandeis University (2004)

Marver & Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (1996 - 1997)

Courses Taught

EL	94a	Experiential Learning Practicum
ENG	1a	Introduction to Literary Studies
ENG	4a	The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
ENG	11a	Introduction to Literary Method
ENG	23a	Remembering and Dismembering: Staging the Body in Early Modern England
ENG	28b	Queer Readings: Before Stonewall
ENG	37b	Modern Drama: Theatres of Rupture, Resistance, and Engagement
ENG	64b	From Libertinism to Sensibility: Pleasure and the Theater, 1660-1800
ENG	87b	Queer Readings: Beyond Stonewall
ENG	120a	The Orlando Project
ENG	133a	Advanced Shakespeare
ENG	144b	The Body as Text
ENG	151a	Queer Studies
ENG	151b	Theater/Theory: Investigating Performance
ENG	153a	Enlightenment of the Flesh: Reading and Writing Sex in the Eighteenth Century
ENG	181a	Making Sex, Performing Gender
ENG	231a	Performing the Early Modern Self
ENG	233a	Shakespeare Seminar

Scholarship

King, Thomas A. "The Sound of Men in Love." Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal, 1600-1800. Ed. Chris Mounsey. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press - Rowman & Littlefield, 2013

King, Thomas A. "“Patricia Simons: The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe: A Cultural History (Review).”." Rev. of The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe: A Cultural History, by Patricia Simons. Renaissance Quarterly vol. 65 Winter 2012: 1277-79.

King, Thomas A and Morris Meyer. "In Defense of Gay/Performance." An Archaeology of Posing: Essays on Camp, Drag, and Sexuality. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press-Macater Press, 2010. 151-81.

King, Thomas A. The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750, vol. 2: Queer Articulations. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.

King, Thomas A. "How (Not) to Queer Boswell." Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800. Ed. Chris Mounsey and Caroline Gonda. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2007. 114-58.

King, Thomas A. "The Subject at the End of the Voice." Considering Calamity: Methods for Performance Research. Ed. Linda Ben-Zvi and Tracy C. Davis. Israel: Assaph Books, 2007. 55-95.

King, Thomas A.. "The Subject at the End of the Voice." Assaph: Studies in the Theatre. Special Issue: Calamity. Ed. Tracy C. Davis and Linda Ben-Zvi. 21. (2007): 55-95.

King, Thomas A. "The Castrato's Castration." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 46. 3 (2006): 563-84.

King,Thomas A. The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750, vol. 1: The English Phallus. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.

King,Thomas A. "Gender and Modernity: Male Looks and the Performance of Public Pleasures." Monstrous Dreams of Reason: Writing the Body, Self, and Other in the Enlightenment. Ed. Mita Choudhury and Laura J. Rosenthal. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2002. 25-44.

King,Thomas A. "The Fop, The Canting Queen, and the Deferral of Gender." Presenting Gender: Changing Sex in Early Modern Culture. Ed. Chris Mounsey. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2001. 94-135.

King,Thomas A. "M/S, or Making the Scene: An Erotics of Space." Queen: A Journal of Rhetoric of Power. Special Issue: Sex and Power: Subjection and Subjugation 1. 1 (2000).

King, Thomas A. "Scenes From a Culture of Masochism." Strategic Sex. Ed. D. Travers Scott. New York: Harrington Park-Haworth, 1999. 63-73.

King,Thomas A. "Displacing Masculinity: Edward Kynaston and the Politics of Effeminacy." The Image of Manhood in Early Modern Literature: Viewing the Male. Contributions to the Study of World Literature, No. 95. Ed. Andrew P. Williams. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood, 1999. 119-40.

King,Thomas A. "Performing 'Akimbo': Queer Pride and Epistemological Prejudice." The Politics and Poetics of Camp. Ed. Moe Meyer. London: Routledge, 1994. 23-50.

King,Thomas A. "'As if (she) were made on purpose to put the whole world into good Humour': Reconstructing the First English Actresses." TDR (The Drama Review) Vol 36. No. 3 (1992): 78-102.

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