Linda Charnes (Email; phone 812-855-6643)
Professor
PhD: University of California, Berkeley, 1990

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Shakespeare and Renaissance studies; Shakespeare and Postmodernism, critical and cultural theories; feminist cultural studies; Early Modern Transatlantic and Restoration literatures; political philosophy and theories of democracy.

PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
Books:
Hamlet's Heirs: Shakespeare and the Politics of a New Millennium, (Routledge) 2006.

Notorious Identity: Materializing the Subject in Shakespeare, ( Harvard University Press) 1993.

Shakespeare and the Interactive Stage (in progress).

Provoking Objects: Milton and the Libertines (in progress).

Samples of recent articles:
"Extraordinary Renditions: Character and Place Reconsidered," in "Shakespeare After 9-11": Special Edition of Shakespeare Yearbook, forthcoming 2007.

"Shakespeare, and Belief, in the Future," in Presentist Shakespeares, Routledge, 2006.

"Reading for the Wormholes: Microperiods from the Future," Early Modern Culture, 2007.

"Family Values and Uncivil Unions," in The Presence of Gender in Shakespeare, forthcoming 2007.

Articles in Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Quarterly, Chaucer Review, Textual Practice

"The Two-Party System in Troilus and Cressida," in Companion to Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances (Blackwell, ed. Jean Howard and richard Dutton, 2003).

"The Two-Percent Solution: What Harold Bloom Forgot," in Harold Bloom's Shakespeare (Palgrave McMillan, eds. Christy Desmet and Robert Sawyer, 2001).

Contributer to the Oxford Enclyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, ed. Dennis Kennedy (OUP, 2002).

"The Hamlet Formerly Known as Prince," in Shakespeare and Modernity: Early Modern to the Millenium, edited by Hugh Grady, Routledge, 2000.

"We Were Never Early Modern," in Philosophical Shakespeares, edited by John Joughin, Routledge, 2000.

"Dismember Me: Shakespeare, Paranoia, and the Logic of Mass Culture," in Shakespeare Quarterly 48:1, Spring 1997.

"Styles That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Ideology Critique," in Shakespeare Studies, Vol.24, 1996.

Annual Public Lecture in Honor of Shakespeare's Birthday, at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre, April 1998. Lecture title: "The Hamlet Formerly Known as Prince."

PARTIAL LIST OF AWARDS
AAUW Fellow
IU Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (1993)
Finkelstein Fellow
Indiana University Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (twice)
Indiana University Trustee's Teaching Award

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Professor Charnes taught a seminar, entitled "Shakespeare and Postmodernism," at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. in the spring of 1998. She has given numerous lectures, academic and public, on Shakespeare and contemporary American culture, at venues including the Folger Library, the National Gallery of Art, the World Shakespeare Congress, and the New Globe Theatre in London.

She is currently Consultant/Advisor for the Arden Project: Synthetic Shakespearean World Initiative at Indiana University, funded by the MacArthur Foundation.

She was Director of Graduate Studies at I.U. Bloomington from 1997-2000.

She was Director of Graduate Job Placement from 1997-2007.

She is also a private pilot.