Scott Maisano, Assistant Professor
Teaching Interests
Shakespeare and the Scientific Revolution, Renaissance Humanism and Posthumanist Theory

Current Projects:
Shakespeare's Revolution: New Science, Late Romances, and the Future (book manuscript in preparation)

Publications:
"Reading Underwater; or, Fantasies of Fluency from Shakespeare to Mièville and Emshwiller." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 45:1 (2004), 76-88. 13 pages.
 
"Shakespeare's Dead Sea Scroll: On the Apocryphal Appearance of Pericles." Shakespeare Yearbook.  Special Issue on The Shakespearean Apocrypha, eds. Douglas Brooks and Ann Thompson (2007), 167-193. 27 pages.
 
"Shakespeare's Last Act: The Starry Messenger and the Galilean Book in Cymbeline." Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science and Technology 12:3 2004 (2007), 401-434. 34 pages
 
"Infinite Gesture: Automata and Emotions in Shakespeare and Descartes" in Genesis Redux: Essays on the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life, ed. Jessica Riskin (University of Chicago Press, 2007), 63-84. 22 pages.
 
"Whither Brutus?:  Rethinking Julius Caesar in the New American Century." Invited contribution to "Voices from the Critical Community," in a special "Shakespeare after 9/11" issue of Shakespeare Yearbook, eds. Douglas Brooks and Julia Lupton. Expected publication 2008.  10 pages.

"Reforming the Metamorphoses: The Epic in Translation as a Major Work of the English Renaissance." Approaches to Teaching Ovid and Ovidianism, eds. Barbara Weiden Boyd and Cora Fox (New York: Modern Language Association). Under contract, expected publication 2009. 15 pages.
 
"Descartes avec Milton: The Automata in the Garden." in The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature, ed. Wendy Hyman. (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press) Under contract, expected publication 2009. 25 pages.

Other Media (Rare Book Exhibit, Reference Encyclopedia, and Radio Interview):
All the World's a Page: 400 Years of Shakespeare in Print. Curated Exhibit.  Boston Public Library. July 1st – September 30th 2008.
(Read about the exhibit here <http://www.shakespearepost.com/2008/08/18/boston-public-library-exhibition-explores-how-book-helped-create-shakespeare/>  and here <http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2008/07/wills_testament.html> .)

Encyclopedia Entries for "FORBIDDEN PLANET," "SCIENCE FICTION," "TECHNOLOGY," "TIME," and "UTOPIA" in The Shakespeare Encyclopedia, ed. Patricia Parker (Westport CT: Greenwood Press) Under contract, expected publication 2009.
 
"Shakespeare after 9/11." Interview for MLA Radio Program, What's the Word, hosted by Sally Placksin. Airdate TBA.

Book Reviews:
Review: A Brave New World of Knowledge: Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' and Early Modern Epistemology, by B.J. Sokol. Modern Language Review 100:3 (2005), 773-4.

Review: Allegory, Space, and the Material World in the Writings of Edmund Spenser, by Christopher Burlinson. Spenser Review. (Winter 2008), 2-4
 
Review (forthcoming): Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature, by Jessica Wolfe. Early Modern Literary Studies 14:2 (September 2008). 3 pages

Upcoming Projects:
Renaissance Posthumanism (seminar, co-organized w/ Joseph Campana, for the 2010 Shakespeare Association of America conference in Chicago)

St. Patrick for Ireland (ed. w/ Robert Lublin) for the Oxford University Press Complete Works of James Shirley in 10 Volumes (eds. Eugene Giddens, Teresa Grant, and Barbara Ravelhofer.


Office: Wheatley-6-063
Telephone: 617-287-6738
Email: scott.maisano@umb.edu