Lauren Robertson
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

My Contact Info

408C Philosophy, Mail Code: MC 4927, United States

Office Hours Fall 2022

Tuesday 4:30 – 5:30 PM
Thursday 4:30 – 5:30 PM



+1 212 854 3215
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Lauren Robertson

Research Interests

Early Modern Drama
Shakespeare
Theatricality and Performance
The Intersection of Cultural and Intellectual Histories
Renaissance / Early Modern
Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Biography

B.A. St. John’s College (2008); Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis (2016). Lauren Robertson specializes in early modern drama, with emphases on the London commercial theater and the intersections of cultural and intellectual histories.
She is currently at work on her first monograph,?Spectacular Skepticism: Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern English Theater, which examines how the theater embraced and exploited performance conventions in order to induce doubt in its audiences. Her article, “‘Ne’er was dream so like a waking': The Temporality of Dreaming and the Depiction of Doubt in?The Winter’s Tale,” was recently published in?Shakespeare Studies, and her book and performance reviews have appeared in or are forthcoming from?Theatre Journal,?Shakespeare Bulletin, and?The Shakespeare Newsletter.