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Papers Delivered:

• Richard Burt has delivered invited papers at sessions of the Modern Language Association (1989, 1991, 2003, 2008, 2013), the VII, VIII, and IX World Shakespeare Congresses in Valencia, Spain in 2002, Brisbane, Australia in 2006, and Prague, Czech Republic in July 17 - 22, 2011; Tsukbua University, Tokyo (2012); Donghai University, Shanghai, China (2011); Central Taiwan University qne National Taiwan University (2009); the Shakespeare Association of America (2003 and 2008), the Getty Research Center (1995), the British Museum (2008), the ACLA (2008), and numerous colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Tufts University, New York University, Amherst College (Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought), the University of Michigan, the Free University in Berlin, the University of Jena, the University of Tuebingen, the University of Morocco, the University of Rouen, the University of Kansas, the University of Reading, the University of Durham, Birbeck University, London, the University of Warwick, U.C. Irvine, the University of Lodz, Poland, the University of Alabama's Hudson Strode Lecture Series, Columbia University, and Arizona State University.

Publications

Books:

• Authored:

• Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media. (New York and London:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), xiv; 279 pp. Paperback edition, 2010.
• Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture.   Revised, paperback edition with a new preface. (New York: St. Martin's Press / London: Macmillan Press, 1999), xxvii. 318 pp.
• Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture. (New York: St. Martin's Press / London: Macmillan Press, 1998), xvii. 318 pp. 
• Licensed by Authority:   Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship. (Ithaca and London:   Cornell UP, 1993), xx, 227 pp.

• Co-Authored:

  • What's the Worst Thing You Can Do to Shakespeare? Julian Yates, co-author. (New York and London:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

• Edited and Co-edited :

• Shakespeares After Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vol. Ed. Richard Burt (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006), viii; 862 pp.
• Shakespeare, the Movie II:   Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video and DVD. Ed. Richard Burt and Lynda Boose (New York and London:   Routledge Press, 2003), xi, 340 pp.
• Shakespeare After Mass Media. Ed. Richard Burt (New York and London: Palgrave, 2002).
• The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere. Ed. Richard Burt (Minneapolis, MN:  U of Minnesota P, 1994), xxx, 386 pp.   
• Shakespeare, the Movie:   Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video. Ed. Lynda Boose and Richard Burt (New York and London:   Routledge Press, 1997), ix, 280 pp. Korean translation, 2001.
• Enclosure Acts:   Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England. Ed. Richard Burt and John Michael Archer. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1994), x, 340 pp.

• Monographs:

• "Putting Your Papers in Order: The Matter of Kierkegaard's Writing Desk, Goethe's Files, and Derrida's Paper Machine, or the Philology and Philosophy of Publishing After Death" (pdf; 38,000 words,) Rhizomes 20 (Summer 2010).

• Chapters in Books and Articles in Journals (In Print ):

• Chapters in Books:

• "Writing the Endings of Cinema: Evocations of Authorial Absence and the Saving of Film Authorship in the Cinematic Paratext," in The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship.  Ed. Judith Buchanan. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 178-92. 6,000 words.
• "Duly Noted or Off the Record? Sovereignty and the Secrecy of the Law in Cinema" In Secrets of the Law. Ed. Martha Umphrey, Lawrence Douglas, and Austin Sarat (Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Stanford UP, 2012), pp. 211-56. 20,266 words.
• "Hamlet 's Hauntographology: Film Philology, Textual Faux-rensics, and Facsimiles" In A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation. Ed. Deborah Cartmell (Blackwell, 2012), 216-240. 12,500 words; a shorter version appeared under the same title in the Chinese journal Foreign Literature Studies, Vol. 34 No. 1 February 2012 pp. 19-31.
• "Shakespeare Reverbatin': Spectral Media, Unread -ability, and the Weak Sovereignty of the In/Definitive Edition." In Shakespeare and Culture. Ed. Beatrice Lei. (National Taiwan UP, 2011), pp. 117-45. 7,294 words.
• "Backing Up the Virtual Bayeux Tapestries: Facsimiles as Attachment Disorders, or Turning Over the Other Side of the Underneath" (uncorrected proofs). In New Research on the Bayeux Tapestry: The Proceedings of a Conference at the British Museu. Ed. M. J. Lewis, G. R. Owen-Crocker, and D. Terkl. (London: Oxbow, 2011), pp. 27-36. For the errata sheet, click here.
• "All That Remains of the Shakespeare Play in Indian Film." In Shakespeare in Asia: Contemporary Performance. Ed. Yong Li Lan and Dennis Kennedy (London: Cambridge UP, 2010), pp. 73-108.
• "Jacques Rivette and Film Adaptation as Dérive-ation: Pericles in Paris Belongs to Us and The Revenger's Tragedy in Noirot," in The English Renaissance in Popular Culture: An Age for All Time. Ed. Gregory Semenza (New York and London:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 167-86.
• "Being your slave": Not Citing Sonnets 57 and 58 and the TraUmisSion of Race in the United States." In Shakespeare's Sonnets Global. Ed. Manfred Pfister and Jurgen Gutsch (Dozwill TG Switzerland: Edition Signature, 2009), pp. 181-92.
• "Epilogue: ObaMacbeth: National Transition as National Traumissino," In Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance. Ed. Scott L. Newstock and Ayanna Thompson, (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 341-46.
• "Mobilizing Foreign Shakespeares in Media." In Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace. Ed. Alexander C. Y. Huang and Charles Ross (West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2009), pp. 231-38.
• "Border Skirmishes: Weaving Around the Bayeux Tapestry and Cinema in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves and El Cid." In Medieval Film. Ed. Anke Bernau and Bettina Bildhauer (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2009), pp. 158-18.
• "My Favorite Shakespeare Films." In The Researcher's Guide to Shakespeare on Film, Radio and Television. Ed. Olwen Terris and Luke Wilson. British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC), 2009.
• "Thomas Middleton, Uncut: Castration, Censorship, and the Regulation of Middleton's Dramatic Discourse." In Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works , ed. Gary Taylor (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007), pp. 182-94.
• "Shakespeare 'Tween Media and Markets:  Literacy,  Losers, and Literary Culture from Little Women to Lizzie  McQuire." In Shakespeare and Childhood, ed. Susanne Greenhalgh and Robert Shaughnessy, (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007), pp. 218-32.
• "Civic ShakesPR: Middlebrow Multiculturalism, White Television, and the Color Bind." In Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance. Ed. Ayanna Thompson, (London and New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 157-185.
• "Backstage Pass(ing): Stage Beauty, Othello, and the Makeup of Race." In Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray (Edinburgh University Press / Columbia UP, 2006), pp. .
• " SShockspeare: (Nazi) Shakespeare Goes Heil-lywood," in A Companion to Shakespeare in Performance. Ed. Barbara Hodgdon and W.B. Worthen (Oxford: Blackwell Press, 2005), 437-56.
• "What the Puck?:  Screening the (Ob)Scene in Bardcore Midsummer Night's  Dreams and the Transmediatic Technologies of Tactility."  In Shakespeare on Screen: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Ed. Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Gurin.  Rouen: Publications de l'Universite de Rouen, 2004, pp. 57-86.
• "Shakespeare 'Glo-cali-zation,' Race, and the Small Screens of Post-Popular Culture." In Shakespeare the Movie, II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video, and DVD. Ed. Richard Burt and Lynda E. Boose, (New York and London: Routledge Press, 2003), pp. 14-32.
• "Shakespeare in Asian and Post-Disaporic Cinemas: Spinoffs and Citations of the Plays from Bollywood to Hollywood." In Shakespeare the Movie, II : Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video, and DVD. Ed. Richard Burt and Lynda E. Boose (New York and London: Routledge Press, 2003), pp. 265-302.
• "Doing the Queen: Gender, Sexuality, and the Censorship of Elizabeth I's Royal Image from Renaissance Portraiture to Twentieth-Century Mass Media." In Literature and Censorship in Renaissance England. Ed. Andrew Hadfield (London: Macmillan, 2001), pp. 207-228, and The Mysteries of Elizabeth I. Ed. Kathleen Swaim and Kirby Farrell (Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2003), pp. 267-77.
• "Shakespeare and the Holocaust: Julie Taymor's Titus is Beautiful, or Shakesploi Meets (the) Camp," The Colby Quarterly, Spring 37 (1), 2001, 78-106, special issue on Shakespeare and film. Ed. Laurie Osborne; and revised and expanded in Shakespeare After Mass Media. Ed. Richard Burt (New York: Palgrave, 2002), pp. 295-329.
• "T(e)en Things I Hate About Girlene Shakesploitation Flicks in the Late 1990s, or, Not So Fast Times at Shakespeare High," in Screening the Bard: Shakespearean Spectacle, Critical Theory, Film Practice. Ed. Lisa Starks and Courtney Lehmann (New Jersey: American University Presses, 2001), pp. 205-232.
• "No Holes Bard: Homonormativity and the Gay and Lesbian Romance with Romeo and Juliet," Shakespeare Without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital. Ed. Don Hedrick and Bryan Reynolds (New York: Palgrave, 2000), pp. 153-186.
• "Shakespeare in Love and the End of the Shakespearean: Academic and Mass Culture Constructions of Literary Authorship," Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siecle. Ed. Mark Burnett and Ramona Wray (London: Macmillan / New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000), pp. 203-31.
• "(Un)Censoring in Detail: The Fetish of Censorship in the Early Modern Past and Postmodern Present," Censorship and Silencing: Practices of Cultural Regulation. Ed. Robert Post (Santa Monica, CA; Getty Research Institute Publications, 1998), 17-41.
• "The Love That Dare Not Speak Shakespeare's Name: New Shakesqueer Cinema," in Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video. Ed. Lynda Boose and Richard Burt (New York and London: Routledge Press, 1997), pp. 240-68.
• "'Degenerate "Art"': Public Aesthetics and the Simulation of Censorship in Postliberal Los Angeles and Berlin," in The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism and the Public Sphere. Ed. Richard Burt (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1994), pp. 216-59.
• "Baroque Down: the Trauma of Censorship in Queer Film Revisions of Marlowe and Shakespeare," in Shakespeare In the New Europe. Ed. Michael Hattaway et al (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993), pp. 328-50.
• "'A Dangerous Rome': Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the Discursive Determinism of Cultural Politics," in Contending Kingdoms: Historical, Psychological, and Feminist Approaches to the Literature of Sixteenth-Century England and France, ed. Marie-Rose Logan and Peter L. Rudnytsky (Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1990), pp. 109-27.

Articles in Journals:

• "Shelf-Life: Biopolitics, the New Media Archive, and 'Paperless' Persons," in New Formations, special issue on "Materialities of Text: Between the Codex and the Net," Eds. Nicholas Thorburn and Says, in New Formations special issue on "Materialities of Text: Between the Codex and the Net," Eds. Nicholas Thorburn and Says May. No. 77, May, 2013. 10,534 words.
• "Shakespeare's Bare (Ruined) Lives ," in Shakespeare After 9/11: How a Social Trauma Reshapes Interpretation a special issue of Shakespeare Yearbook, Vol. 20 Ed. Matthew Biberman, Julia Reinhard Lupton (Edwin Mellen Press, 2011), 213-26. 2,500 words.
• "Digital Film, Asianization, and the Transational Film Remake: Alluding to Shakespeare in L'Appartement, The King Is Alive, Wicker Park A Time to Love, and University of Laughs ," in Shakespeare Yearbook 17, special issue on "Shakespeare and Asia." Ed. YANG Lingui, (Edwin Mellen Press, 2010), 45-78.
• "Becoming Literary, Becoming Historical: The Scale of Female Authorship in Becoming Jane."Adaptation. 1:1. (2008), 58-62.
• "Cutting and Running from the (Medieval) Middle East : The Uncanny Mises-hors-scene of Kingdom of Heaven's Double DVDs," Babel, special issue, "Le Moyen Age mise-en-scene: Perspectives contemporaines." Ed. Sandra Gorgievski and Xavier Leroux, N° 15, 1er semestre (2007), 247-298. For PDF, click here. For issue contents, click here.
• "Getting Schmedieval: Of Manuscript and Film Parodies, Prologues, and Paratexts," special issue of Exemplaria on "Movie Medievalism," 19.2. (Summer 2007), 217-42, co-edited by Richard Burt.
• "Re-embroidering the Bayeux Tapestry in Film and Media: the Flip Side of History in Opening and End Title Sequences," special issue of Exemplaria on "Movie Medievalism," 19.2. (Summer 2007), 327-50, co-edited by Richard Burt.
• "Stupid Shit: (In)security in the Age of Twilightenment," ArtUS (formerly Artext) no. 11, February, 2006, 29-37 (lead article). For scans in pdf, click here.
• "Slammin' Shakespeare In Acc(id)ents Yet Unknown: Liveness, Cinem(edi)a, and Racial Dis-integration, " Shakespeare Quarterly , 53 (2) Summer (2002), 201-26, special issue on Shakespeare on film. Ed. Barbara Hodgdon.
• "Getting Off the Subject: Iconoclasm, Queer Sexuality, and the Celebrity Intellectual," Performing Arts Journal 50/51 (May / September 1995): 137-50 (special issue devoted to the Arts and the University).
• "'Tis Writ by Me': Massinger's The Roman Actor and the Politics of Reception in the English Renaissance Theater," Theatre Journal 40 (October 1988), 332-46.
• "Licensed by Authority': Ben Jonson and the Politics of Early Stuart Theater," ELH 54 (Fall 1987), 529-60.
• "Charisma, Coercion, and Comic Form in The Taming of the Shrew," Criticism 26 (Fall 1984), 295-311; reprinted in Modern Critical Interpretations: William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Ed. Harold Bloom (New York and New Haven: Chelsea House, 1988), 79-82; reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism . Ed. Marie Lazzari (Detroit: Gale Research, 1996).

Co-Authored Articles:

• "What's the Worst Thing You Can Do to Shak/x/espeare?" co-authored with Julian Yates, Renaissance Drama, n.s. 40 2012, 71-89.
• "Certain Tendencies in Shakespeare Film Criticism," co-authored with Scott Newstock, Shakespeare Studies Vol. 38, special Forum on "After Shakespeare on Film." Ed. Gregory Semenza, 2010, 88-103.
• "Suggested for Mature Readers: Deconstructing Shakespearean Value in Comic Books," co-authored with Josh Heuman, forthcoming in Shakespeare After Mass Media. Ed. Richard Burt (New York: Palgrave, 2002), 150-71.
• "Knowing Better: Sex, Cultural Criticism, and the Pedagogical Imperative in the 1990s," co-authored with Jeffrey Wallen, Diacritics , "Texts / Contexts," Spring 1999, 29 (1): 72-91.
• "Totally Clueless?: Shakespeare Goes Hollywood in the 1990s," co-authored with Lynda Boose, in Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video. (New York and London: Routledge Press, 1997), 8-22; reprinted in Timothy Corrigan, Ed. Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999), 340-56; reprinted in Sarah McLanahan. Ed. Shaping Discourses: Readings for University Writers , South Bend, IN: U of Notre Dame P, 2001; reprinted in William Shakespeare. Ed. Laura Marve (Greehaven, 2003).

Introductions :

• "Shakespeare, the Movie, the Sequel: Popularizing the Plays on Film, Television, and DVD: Editors' Cut," in Shakespeare the Movie II. Ed. Richard Burt and Lynda E. Boose, (New York and London: Routledge Press, 2003), 1-13.
• "To e- or not to e-? Schlockspeare in the Age of Electronic Mass Media," in Shakespeare After Mass Media. Ed. Richard Burt (New York: Palgrave, 2002), 1-32.
• "The 'New' Censorship," in The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere Ed. Richard Burt (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1994), xi-xxix.

Co-Authored Book Introductions :

• "Shakespeare, the Movie." Co-authored with Lynda Boose, in Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film,TV, and Video (New York and London: Routledge Press, 1997), 1-7.
• "Introduction," co-authored with John Michael Archer, in Enclosure Acts: Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1994), 1-13.

Books in Progress:

• The Uninvited Reading: Literature, the Archive, and the Wake of Publication
• What's the Worst Thing You Can Do to Shakespeare? co-authored with Julian Yates, under contract with Palgrave, expected publication date, Spring 2013.

Forthcoming Chapters in Books and Articles in Journals

• Now at press (articles solicited for for special issues and books, now awaiting copy-editing):

• Read After Burning: Notes on a Possibly Psychoanalytic Posthumography of Jacques Derrida’s Post Card  and the Biobibliothanatopolitics of its Remains . . . to Be Archived . . . to Be Published . . . to Be Inhumed . . . to Live on [Sur-vivre] . . . to Be Cremated . . . to Be Wetwared  . . . to Be Continued . . .  to Be Read (X-uent Omnes?)," in Glossator, special issue entitled "Going Postcard: The Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida" ed. Michael O'Rouke, Volume 7 (Spring 2013)
• "NachGloss /'la séance continue': The Last Words of “To Speculate—On ‘Freud’” in The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond Translated into English, with Notes on a Passage Quoted in German from Friedrich Nietzsche’s Nachlass “of the 80s” AppendiX  / (anneX) / Anschluss," in Glossator, special issue entitled "Going Postcard: The Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida" ed. Michael O'Rouke, Volume 7 (Spring 2013)
• "Sh  k  es   e re Cin-Offs Beyond Wreckognition: Film Philology, CiNOma, and Abbas Kiarostami's Where is My Romeo," in Shakespeare Spin-Offs. Ed. Amy Scott-Douglas. (Palgrave McMillan, 2013).
• It's a Beautiful Monster: Robert Zemeckis's Beowulf, Formal Materiality, Paramediality, and the Hard Drive Rotations of Film and Media History. For images to this article, click here. CTheory.net

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