J. Caitlin Finlayson, Ph.D.

Professor of English
Caitlin Finlayson
College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters
Language, Culture, and the Arts
schedule By appointment only
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Teaching Areas:

English

Research Areas:

English Literature, Humanities

Biography and Education

Education

Ph.D. University of Toronto; M.A. University of Virginia; B.A. Vassar College.

Selected Publications

Books:

Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in early Modern London (2020). Caitlin Finlayson. 

Two London Lord Mayors Shows by John Squire (1620) and John Taylor (1634). Ed. J. Caitlin Finlayson. Collections XVII. Oxford: Malone Society, 2015. 75-150.

Articles:

John Taylor, the Self-Made Poet, on Merit and Social Mobility in Mercantile London. English Studies 98.2 (2017): 120-136.

Killing Desdemona: Staging Sexual Violence in Othello Graphic Novels. Drawn from the Classics: Essays on Graphic Adaptations of Literature. Ed. Stephen Tabachnick and Esther Saltzman. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2015, 46-59. 

Thomas Heywoods Londini Artium & Scientiarum Scaturigo (1632): the Huntington and Worcester Copies Two Issues or Variant States? The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 108:3 (2014): 325-341. 

Thomas Heywoods Panegyric to Londons University in Londini Artium & Scientiarum Scaturigo or Londons Fountain of Arts and Sciences (1632) The London Journal 39.2 (2014):1-18.

Squire, John (c.1587-1653). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 

Jacobean Foreign Policy, Londons Civic Polity and Squires Lord Mayors Show, The Tryumphs of Peace (1620). Studies in Philology 110.3 (Summer 2013): 584-610.

Originally Shakespears: Adaptation, Critique and All for Love and The Tempest. Approaches to Teaching John Dryden. Eds. Lisa Zunshine and Jayne Lewis. New York: MLA, 2013. 132-139. 

Mercantilism and the Path to Spiritual Salvation in Thomas Heywoods Londini Emporia (1633). English Studies 91.8 (2010): 838-860. 

John Squire: The Unknown Author of The Tryumphs of Peace, the London Lord Mayors Show for 1620. Neophilologus 94.3 (2010): 531-539. 

The Boundaries of Genre: Translating Shakespeare in Johnston and Weldeles Julius. Teaching the Graphic Novel. Ed. Stephen Tabachnick. New York: MLA, 2009. 188-199.

Medieval Sources for Keatsian Creation in La Belle Dame sans Merci. Philological Quarterly 79.2 (2000): 225-247.

The Garden of Plentie in Stephen Harrisons The Arches of Triumph and the 1604 Royal Entry for James I, Ritual and Ceremony from Late-Medieval Europe to Early America. Folger Shakespeare Library, May 2011. Web.

Academic Theatre Reviews:

Macbeth Polish Song of the Goat Theatre (Teatr Piesn Kozla). Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship 29.3 (2011): 442-447. 

The Tempest: Re-imagined for everyone aged six and over Open Air Theatre at Regents Park, London. Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship 28.2 (2010): 291-297. 

Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare Dallas. Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship 25.3 (2007): 119-122.