Maura Giles-Watson
Maura Giles-Watson (MA, MEd) is working on her PhD in premodern English literature, chiefly drama and poetry. Her interests encompass comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to performance of poetic, dramatic, and rhetorical texts; theatrical history; classical traditions and interruptions; and theories of performance, argumentation, and epistolology. Maura’s essay on continuities and ruptures in the visual, dramatic, and literary representations of Odysseus/Ulysses appeared in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (2007); her work on ‘geosomatic’ women in Chaucer and Shakespeare was included in the select proceedings of the Newberry Library’s ‘Mapping the Premodern’ conference (2008); and her article on singing Vice figures in 15th and 16th-century drama is forthcoming in Early Theatre (2009). Maura’s instructional approaches include cross-cultural and liberation pedagogies--especially critical, feminist, and theater-in-education methods. She holds secondary teaching credentials in English and Latin. At UNL Maura teaches Shakespeare, Introduction to Linguistics, and Rhetoric as Argument.
Contact Info:
Office: Andrews 112.
Office hours for fall 2009: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:45-3 and other days by appointment.
email: mauragiles@post.harvard.edu
