Education:
Ph.D., Yale University - 1999 (Literature, Comparative)
M.A., Oxford University - 1992 (Classics and English)
B.A., Yale University - 1990 (English)
Areas of Expertise:
Tanya Pollard specializes in Shakespeare, early modern drama, history of emotions and the body, and classical reception. She is currently writing a book about the reception of Greek plays in 16th-century Europe, and their consequences for the development of popular dramatic genres in early modern England.
Books and Publications
"Conceiving Tragedy." Shakespearean Sensations. Eds. Tanya Pollard and Katharine Craik. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. 85-100. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2013
"Greek Books and Dramatic Forms in Early Modern England." Forms of Early Modern Writing. Eds. Allison Deutermann and Andras Kisery. (Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press). Forthcoming. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013
"Tragicomedy." The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, Volume 2: The Renaissance. Eds. Patrick Cheney and Philip Hardie. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013
Pollard, Tanya and Katharine Craik. "Introduction." Shakespearean Sensations. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. 1-25. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2013
Pollard, Tanya and Katharine Craik. Shakespearean Sensations. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2013
"What's Hecuba to Shakespeare?" Renaissance Quarterly 65.4: 1060-93. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
"Audience Reception." The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare. Ed. Arthur Kinney. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. 452-67. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011
"Barnabe Barnes" biographical essay. Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. Eds. Alan Stewart and Garrett Sullivan. Oxford, United Kingdom: Blackwell Publishing. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011
"Drugs, Poisons, Remedies and the Theatre." Middleton in Context. Ed. Suzanne Gossett. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. 287-94. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011
"Stephen Gosson" biographical essay. Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. Eds. Alan Stewart and Garrett Sullivan. Oxford, United Kingdom: Blackwell Publishing. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011
"Enclosing the Body: Tudor Conceptions of Skin." A Companion to Tudor Literature and Culture, 1485-1603. Ed. Kent Cartwright. Oxford, United Kingdom: Blackwell. 111-23. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2010
"Tragedy and Revenge." The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy. Eds. Emma Smith and Garrett Sullivan. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. 58-72. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2010
"'A Thing Like Death': Poisons and Sleeping Potions in 'Romeo and Juliet' and A'ntony and Cleopatra.'" Reprinted (from Renaissance Drama (2003)) in Harold Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, New Edition. New York: Chelsea House. 29-54. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009
"Romancing the Greeks: Cymbeline's Genres and Models." How to Do Things With Shakespeare. Ed. Laurie Maguire. Oxford, United Kingdom: Blackwell Publishing. 34-53. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007
"Spelling the Body." Inhabiting the Body, Inhabiting the World. Eds. Garrett Sullivan and Mary Floyd-Wilson. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave. 171-86. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007
"A Kind of Wild Medicine: Revenge as Remedy in Early Modern England." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 50: 57-69. Invitational contribution to special journal issue on changing paradigms in literature and science. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005
Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England. Oxford University Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2005
"'No Faith in Physic': Masquerades of Medicine Onstage and Off." Disease, Diagnosis and Cure on the Early Modern Stage: Praxis and Performance. Eds. Stephanie Moss and Kaara Peterson. Aldershot and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Press. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2004
"The Pleasures and Perils of Smoking in Early Modern England." Smoke: A Global History of Smoking. Eds. Sander Gilman and Zhou Xun. London: Reaktion Press. 38-45. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2004
Pollard, Tanya and Lucy Munro. "Tobacco in English Renaissance Literature." Tobacco in History and Culture: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Jordan Goodman. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Charles Scribner's Sons. 223-26. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004
"'A Thing Like Death': Poisons and Sleeping Potions in 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Antony and Cleopatra.'" Renaissance Drama 32: 95-121. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003
Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook. Blackwell Publishing. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2003
"Les dangers de la beauté: Maquillage et théâtre au dix-septième siècle en Angleterre." La Beauté et Ses Monstres. Eds. Line Cottegnies, Tony Gheeraert and Gisèle Venet. Paris: Presses de la Nouvelle Sorbonne. 231-41. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2002
"Beauty's Poisonous Properties." Shakespeare Studies 27: 187-210. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1999
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Whiting Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching. (Awards and Honors) 2010
NEH Research Fellowship, 2006-07. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006
Other Professional Activities
Interviewed by Ethan Hawke in "Shakespeare Uncovered: Ethan Hawke on Macbeth," BBC/PBS documentary, aired in the United Kingdom in June 2012 and in the United States in January 2013. See online at http://video.pbs.org/video/2328956371 2013
