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Gina Bloom
- Associate Professor and Graduate Adviser
Office Hours: Wed. 11-12; 3-4; and by appointment
Biography:
Gina Bloom joined the UC Davis English faculty in 2007. Before coming to Davis, she taught at the University of Iowa and Lawrence University. Her areas of interest include early modern English literature, especially Shakespeare and drama, gender and feminist theory, theater history and performance, and sound studies. Her first book, Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England (University of Pennsylvania Press, Material Texts series, 2007), won the award for best book of the year from the The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. She has held fellowships from the Institute for the Study of Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the Folger Library, the Huntington Library, and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). She is currently working on a study of games and masculinity in the early modern English theater. And she is the co-director with Margaret Ferguson of the Mellon Research Initiative in Early Modern Studies.
Publication Spotlight
Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England. University of Pennsylvania Press, Material Texts series, 2007.
"Bloom's interest in voice in the theater is grounded in early modern ideas about the human body and the mechanics of vocal production. The range of plays on which she draws lets her combine new readings of canonical works with fresh attention to less well known texts. Voice in Motion is a book of interdisciplinary reach, solid scholarship, and imaginative resonance."—Bruce Smith, University of Southern California
"This book should be given pride of place on every feminist bookshelf."—Theatre Journal
"one of the best books of the year, as enjoyable as it is significant."—"Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama," Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900.
Other Selected Publications
- "'My Feet See Better Than My Eyes: Spatial Mastery and the Game of Masculinity in Arden of Faversham's Amphitheatre." Theatre Survey 53.1 (2012): 5-28.
- "'Boy Eternal': Aging, Games, and Masculinity in The Winter's Tale. English Literary Renaissance 40.3 (2010): 329-56.
- "Manly Drunkenness: Binge Drinking as Disciplined Play." Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice, 1550-1650. Eds. Amanda Bailey and Roze Hentschell (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010), 21-44.
- "Words Made of Breath: Gender and Vocal Agency in King John." Shakespeare Studies33 (2005): 125-55.
- "Localizing Disembodied Voice in Sandys' Translation of 'Narcissus and Echo.'" InOvid and the Renaissance Body, ed. Goran Stanivukovic (Toronto University Press, 2002), 129-54.
- "'Thy Voice Squeaks': Listening for Masculinity on the Early Modern Stage."Renaissance Drama 29 (2000): 39-71.
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Education & Interests:
- M.A., Ph.D., and Certificate in Women's Studies, University of Michigan
- B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Courses:
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