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With a fellowship from the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS), she will spend the 2009-2010 academic year in Washington D.C. working on her current book project, a study of games and masculinity in the early modern English theater.

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

• "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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