John Twyning
Department Chair, Associate Professor of English
412-624-6509
twyning@pitt.edu
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John Twyning is Associate Professor of English and Department Chair. He received his PhD from the University of East Anglia in 1992.
Research and Publication:
His current interests includes the formation of an English historical and national consciousness in various forms of architecture, literature, art and landscape. He has recently published “Walsingham and the Architecture of English History,” in Walsingham in Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity (Ashgate 2010) edited by Gary Waller and Dominic Janes. Also forthcoming is an article on “Taming the Wodewose and Early Modern Theatre” appearing in the inaugural issue of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies (April 2010). His current project is England’s Green and Pleasant land: Reforming the Nation in Literature, Landscape and Architecture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), which examines the ways in which ideas of Englishness came to be formed or pursued in the relationship between literature, architecture, and landscape. Among other issues, the book explores the ‘allure of the Gothic’ in architecture and literature as a form which haunts and shapes the English imagination and its historical consciousness. Other interests include Early Modern literature and culture, especially London’s social and literary history, and the drama of Jonson, Middleton, and Dekker. His book, London Dispossessed: Literature and Social Space in the Early Modern City, is part of the LDS series and has been published by Macmillan Press and St. Martin's Press. He has also published articles on Metropolitan Literature, City Comedy and Early Modern Rogue Literature.
Teaching
Graduate Courses:
- Literature and History
- Literature, Landscape, Architecture
- Theatre and Anti-Theatre
- Early Modern London
- Practices and Texts
- Shakespeare
Undergraduate Courses:
- Senior Seminar
- Junior Seminar
- Renaissance in England
- Advanced Shakespeare
- Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
- Lectures in Literature
- Introduction to Critical Reading
- Introduction to Shakespeare
