People
Faculty
James Bromley
Title
- Assistant Professor
Education
- Ph.D. Loyola University Chicago–2007
- M.A. Loyola University Chicago
- B.A. Aquinas College
Research Interests
- Renaissance literature, especially non-Shakespearean drama
- History of sexuality
- Representations of affection in literature
- Narrative
Teaching Interests
- Shakespeare
- 16th and 17th century literature
- Queer theory
- Intimacy in literature
Selected Publications
- “Social Relations and Masochistic Sexual Practice in The Nice Valour” forthcoming from Modern Philology
- ‘Let It Suffise’: Sexual Acts and Narrative Structure in Hero and Leander.” Queer Renaissance Historiography: The Backward Gaze. Ed. Stephen Guy-Bray, Vin Nardizzi, and Will Stockton. Burlington: Asghate, 2009. 67-84.
- “‘The Onely Way to Be Mad, Is to Bee Constant’: Defending Heterosexual Non-monogamy in John Lyly’s Love’s Metamorphosis.” Studies in Philology 106.4 (2009): 420-440.
- “Intimacy and the Body in Seventeenth–Century Religious Devotion.” Early Modern Literary Studies 11.1 (May 2005). http://purl.oclc.org/emls/11-1/brominti.htm
Work in Progress
Failures of Intimacy in Renaissance English Literature, a book length study of representations of non–standard forms of affection in Renaissance literature and their interaction with genres and narrative forms; also an essay about how to historicize representations of sexual practice in Renaissance literature.