Jay Zysk

faculty

Jay Zysk, PhD

Associate Professor

English & Communication

Director

Office of Faculty Development

Contact

508-999-8864

jzysk@umassd.edu

Liberal Arts 343

Contact

508-910-6534

jzysk@umassd.edu

Claire T. Carney Library 215

Education

2011Brown UniversityPhD
2007Brown UniversityMA
2005Stonehill CollegeBA

Teaching

  • Shakespeare
  • Early English drama
  • Late medieval and early modern literature
  • The English Reformation
  • Literary theory

Teaching

Programs

Research

Research activities

  • Participant, Folger Shakespeare Library Colloquium on "Teaching Medieval Drama and Performance"
  • Short Term Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library
  • Subject Editor, "British Isles and Northern Europe," Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World

Research

Research interests

  • Shakespeare
  • medieval early modern literature
  • Reformation history and culture
  • history of the body
  • periodization studies

Select publications

  • Jay Zysk (2017).
    Shadow and Substance: Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama across the Reformation Divide; University of Notre Dame Press
  • Brokaw, Katherine Steele and Jay Zysk. (2019).
    Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare
    Northwestern University Press
  • Jay Zysk (2015).
    Relics and Unreliable Bodies in The Changeling
    English Literary Renaissance, 45.3, 400-424.

Jay Zysk received his Ph.D. in English literature from Brown University. His research and teaching focus on early British literature, Shakespeare, early modern drama, and medieval drama. His current work focuses on intersections between theology and drama, as well as between religion and secularity, across the medieval/early modern divide. He is the author of Shadow and Substance: Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama across the Reformation Divide (University of Notre Dame Press, 2017), and co-editor (with Katherine Steele Brokaw) of Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare (Northwestern University Press, 2019).

In addition, Professor Zysk has published several essays on Shakespeare and early modern drama in Christianity and Literature, English Literary Renaissance, postmedieval, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and a number of edited book collections. In 2014, he received a short-term fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, and in 2016 participated in a yearlong colloquium on “Teaching Medieval Drama” at the Folger. He is currently subject editor ("British Isles and Northern Europe") for the Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World. He also serves as Director of the Office of Faculty Development at UMass Dartmouth.

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