Scott Maisano, Assistant Professor

Teaching Interests
Shakespeare, English Renaissance, Scientific Romance and Scientific Revolution, Humanism and Posthumanism

Current Projects
Shakespearean Science Fictions: New Philosophy and Late Romances (book manuscript in preparation)

Entries for "Forbidden Planet," "Science Fiction," "Technology/Automata," "Time," and "Utopia" for the Shakespeare Encyclopedia, ed. Patricia Parker (Greenwood Press, forthcoming).

Invited Presentations
Professor Maisano has been an invited speaker at the Stanford Humanities Center and at the annual conferences of the Modern Language Association and the Shakespeare Association of America.

Publications
"Reforming the Metamorphoses: The Epic in Translation as a Major Work of the English Renaissance" in Approaches to Teaching Ovid and Ovidianism, eds. Barbara Weiden Boyd and Cora Fox (MLA, forthcoming).

"Whither Brutus?: Rethinking Julius Caesar in the New American Century." Shakespeare Yearbook. Special Issue on Shakespeare after 9/11, eds. Douglas Brooks and Julia Lupton (forthcoming).

"Infinite Gesture: Automata and Emotions in Shakespeare and Descartes" Genesis Redux: Essays on the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life, ed. Jessica Riskin (University of Chicago Press, 2007), 63-84.

"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.

"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.

"Reading Underwater; or, Fantasies of Fluency from Shakespeare to Mièville and Emshwiller." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 45:1 (Spring 2004), 76-88.

Upcoming Projects
Renaissance Posthumanism: Biopolitics and Naturecultures from More to Milton (book proposal in preparation)

A scholarly edition of James Shirley's St. Patrick for Ireland (with Robert Lublin) for the Oxford University Press Complete Works of James Shirley, 10 volumes, eds. Eugene Giddens, Teresa Grant, and Barbara Ravelhofer.

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