Lisa Celovsky, Associate Professor

Lisa Celovsky

Associate Professor
Department of English

Suffolk University
41 Temple St.
Boston, MA 02114-4280

Office: Fenton 335

Telephone: 617-973-5397

Email: lcelovsk@suffolk.edu 

Degrees Held
PhD English, University of Toronto (June 1997)
MA English, University of Toronto (Nov 1988)
BA English (Honors), Pennsylvania State University (May 1987)

Research Interests

Renaissance Literature, Epic-romance and Sonnet Sequences, Early Modern Gender Issues (especially masculinity, chivalry and tournaments, hospitality, and crossdressing)

Publications
“Early Modern Masculinities and The Faerie Queene.” English Literary Renaissance 35.2 (2005): 210-47.

“Vanquished by Marriage: Tournaments in The Faerie Queene (1596) and the New Arcadia (1590).” Sidney Journal 13 (1994/95): 20-34.

“Pyrocles’ Warlike Peace: Sir Philip Sidney and Androgyny.” Gender Rhetorics: Postures of Dominance and Submission in History. Ed. Richard C. Trexler. Binghamton: MRTS, 1994. 235-44. 

Courses Taught

SF 101: Topic: Monsters and Nightmares
ENG 101, 102: Freshman English I, II
ENG 318: The Epic
ENG 213, 214: English Literature I, II
ENG 319: Elizabethan Literature
ENG 325: Shakespeare’s Histories
ENG 335: Milton