Michael D Slater

Education

• PhD, English, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (2013)
• MA, English, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (2006)
• BA, English and Philosophy, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX (2004)

Research Interests

• British Literature to 1800
• Shakespeare (incl. Shakespeare and Film)
• Renaissance Drama
• Renaissance Poetry and Prose
• Magic and Monsters
• Science and Literature
• Composition

• Awards/Recognitions
  • Jean H. Hagstrum Prize for Best Dissertation of the Year, English Department, Northwestern University, 2014.
  • Graduate School University Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2012-2013.
  • Presidential Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2010-2012.
  • Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll, Northwestern University, 2011.
  • Karin Strand Prize for Best Essay, English Department, Northwestern University, 2008.
• Recent Publications
  • “The Ghost in the Machine: ‘Emotion’ and Mind-Body Union in Hamlet and Descartes.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts (forthcoming).
  • “Spenser’s Poetics of ‘Transfixion’ in the Allegory of Chastity.” SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 54.1 (February 2014): 41-58.
  • “‘Invoking’ Donne: A Grammatical Reconstruction of ‘The Canonization.’” Notes and Queries 53.2 (June 2006): 159-64.
• Presentations
  • “Surprised by Science: The Original ‘Errors’ of Paradise Lost.” Early Modern Colloquium, Northwestern University. Evanston, November 2013.
  • “The Fable of Sound and Visions of the Moon: Allegory in Galileo’s Assayer.” Shakespeare Association of America. Boston, April 2012.
  • “‘When Everything Seems Double’: Dreaming in Gary Griffin’s Midsummer.” Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Chicago, March 2012.
  • “Sapphic Desire and ‘Nature’s Law’: The Social Anxiety of ‘Insignificance’ in Donne’s ‘Sappho to Philaenis.’” Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at CUNY’s Graduate Center. New York, November 2011.
  • “Order and Disorder in the Cosmos: Hamlet’s New Astronomy.” Society of Fellows, Northwestern University. Evanston, October 2011.
  • “The Theater of the World: Performing Gender and Identity in Gary Griffin’s As You Like It.” Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Chicago, January & February 2011.
  • “A Rose by Any Other Name: Economies of Exchange in Gale Edward’s Romeo and Juliet.” Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Chicago, October & November 2010.
  • “Allegory and Physics: Literature and the Scientific Revolution.” Invited Talk, Northwestern English Department. Evanston, March 2010.
  • “A ‘foul and pestilent congregation’: Hamlet and the New Astronomy.” Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Student Conference. Chicago, January 2010.
  • “A Poetics of ‘Transfixion’: Rape and Allegory in Faerie Queene III.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, May 2009.

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor of English, SUNY: SUNY Brockport (2014-present)
• Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Northwestern University (2013-2014)