Bradley D. Ryner

Assistant Professor

Dept. of English

Arizona State University

Education

• Ph.D. in English, University of Delaware, 2006

• M.A. in English, University of Delaware, 2001

• B. A., cum laude, Departmental Honors in English, minor in Theater, Monmouth College, 1999

Employment

• Assistant Professor of English, Arizona State University, 2007-present

• Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Arizona State University, 2006-2007

Publications

Articles

• “The Panoramic View in Mercantile Thought: Or, A Merchant’s Map of Cymbeline,” Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1700, ed. Barbra Sebek and Stephen Deng (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008): 77-94. <http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=0230604730>

• “Commodity Fetishism in Richard Brome’s A Mad Couple Well Matched and its Sources.” Early Modern Literary Studies 13.3 (January, 2008) 4.1-26. <http://purl.oclc.org/emls/13-3/rynecomm.htm>

• “Exchanging Battle: Objective and Subjective Conflicts in The Battle of Maldon,” English Studies 87.3 (2006): 266-276. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380600610076>

Drama Reviews

• “King Lear as Performed by the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, in 1999.” King Lear, ed. Douglas Brooks (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2007): 19-26.

• “Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night by the Russian Theatre Confederation, directed by Declan Donnellan, US tour (18 November 2006, Arizona State University Gammage Auditorium).” Shakespeare 3.1 (2007): 74-78.

Dictionary Entries

• Entries on ten plays for the “Character Dictionary” of The Compendium of Renaissance Drama, ed. Brian Jay Corrigan. CD-ROM database, forthcoming.

• Entries on “Globe Reconstructions,” “Old Vic Theatre,” “English Shakespeare Company,” “Design by Motley” and nine actors and directors (approx. 2000 words) in The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, ed. Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells (Oxford UP, 2001).

Select Conference Presentations

• “Change, Exchange, and Challenges to Sovereignty in Middleton and Rowley’s The Changeling,” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, AZ, Feb. 2008.

• “‘What the poor country gives:’ Labor and Value in Massigner’s The Emperor of the East,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Chicago, IL, Feb. 2006.

• “Merchandizing Exchange in Brome’s The Queen’s Exchange,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, San Antonio, TX, Dec. 2005.

• “Allegorical Consumption: Jonson’s Staple of News and Mercantile Discourse,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Orlando, FL, Nov. 2004.

• “Staging Consumption in Massinger’s A New Way to Pay Old Debts,” Blackfriars Playhouse Conference, Staunton VA, Oct. 2003.

• “The Problems of Performing Othello’s Epilepsy,” Blackfriars Playhouse Conference, Staunton, VA, Oct. 2001.

Courses Taught

Arizona State University

Graduate

• ENG 534: St. in Renaissance Lit.: “Renaissance Stage/Business”

Undergraduate

• ENG 423: Renaissance Drama: “The Renaissance Entertainment Industry”

• ENG 422: Adv. Shakespeare: “Shakespeare and Money”

• ENG 421: Shakespeare: “Shakespeare’s Social Context”

• ENG 326: English Drama 1660-1800: “Restoring Theatrical Tradition”

• ENG 321: Intro. to Shakespeare: “Shakespearean Genres”

Arizona Center For Medieval and Renaissance Studies

• Cambridge Study Abroad Program, ENG 494/HST 304: “City, Country and Commerce on the Renaissance Stage”

University of Delaware

• ENGL 325: Renaissance Literature: “Trade, Travel and Commerce”

• ENGL 324: Shakespeare: “Shakespearean Genres”, “Shakespeare’s Social World”, “Performance and Print”

• ENGL 300: Texts and Contexts: “An Introduction to Literary Theory”

• ENGL 200: Approaches to Literature

• ENGL 110: Honors Critical Reading and Writing: “Performance and Identity”

• ENGL 110: Critical Reading and Writing