Anthony Ellis
Anthony Ellis
Dr. Anthony Ellis
Associate Professor
Renaissance literature
Mailing address
Department of English
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5331
Office: (269) 387-2606
Location
724 Sprau Tower
Education
Ph.D., English Literature, Loyola University Chicago (2003)
Biography
Anthony Ellis received his Ph.D. in English literature from Loyola University Chicago in 2003. At Western Michigan University, he teaches Shakespeare and other courses in the English Renaissance and the history of drama. His research focuses on Anglo-Italian relations in the sixteenth and seventeenth century; he is also interested in representations of old age and the aging process in early modern drama. He is the author of Old Age, Masculinity and Early Modern Drama, which was released by Ashgate Publishing 2009. He has co-edited, with Rachel Poulsen, the essay collection Shifting Borders, Negotiating Places: Cultural Studies and the Mutation(s) of Value (Bordighera, 2006). His articles on Renaissance drama have appeared in Forum Italicum, Studi veneziani, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Ben Jonson Journal. He serves as associate editor of the journal Comparative Drama, published in the WMU Department of English. He has received a WMU FRACASF grant for his research in early Venetian drama (2006) and a Folger Shakespeare Library Maccioli Fellowship (2008).