Stephanie Pietros, PhD
Associate Professor of English
PhD, Fordham University
MA, Fordham University
BA, Providence College
Areas of Interest
- Medieval and early modern literature, especially poetry
- Shakespeare
- History of the book
- Interdisciplinary studies in literature and music
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Courses
- ENGL 110 Writing in Context I
- ENGL 120 Writing in Context II
- ENGL 271 Lyrics and Lyric: The Intersection of Song and Poetry
- ENGL 303 Shakespeare
- ENGL 311 Seventeenth-Century Literature
- ENGL 313 Women in Literature
- ENGL 315 English Traditions in Literature I
- ENGL 450 Coordinating Seminar: Early Modern Women Writers
- FSEM 136 First Year Seminar: Shakespeare’s “Problems” on Film
- FSEM 155 First Year Seminar: Shakespeare’s Cover Songs
- FYE 101 First Year Experience
- PFS 101 HEOP Pre-First Year Seminar
Professional Affiliations
- American Association of University Professors
- Modern Language Association
- Shakespeare Association of America
- Renaissance Society of America
Publications
Edited Volume
with Rebecca Olson (Oregon State University), “First-Generation Shakespeare,” co-edited special issue, Early Modern Culture 14 (2019). https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/emc/vol14/iss1/
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“The Willow Song and Comedy in Othello,” SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 63.2 (Spring 2025).
“Rediscovering the Familiar: Comedy in Romeo and Juliet,” in Approaches to Teaching ‘Romeo and Juliet’, edited by Joseph M. Ortiz, Modern Language Association of America (2024): 72-77.
“Introduction: First-Generation Shakespeare,” with Rebecca Olson, Early Modern Culture 14 (2019): 21-25. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/emc/vol14/iss1/2/
“‘If we shadows have offended’: Shakespeare’s ‘Problems’ and First-Generation Students,” Early Modern Culture 14 (2019): 88-100. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/emc/vol14/iss1/7/
“Anne Bradstreet’s ‘dear remains’: Children and the Creation of Poetic Legacy,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 10.1 (Fall 2015): 48-67.
Regular guest contributor to Thinking Theater NYC (www.thinkingtheaternyc.com)
Recent Papers and Presentations
Roundtable discussant, “Visibility and Invisibility Across Time and Space,” Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans, LA, January 9-12, 2025.
Conference paper, “Blackness in the Sonnet,” Shakespeare’s Poems in Context(s) Seminar, Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, April 10-13, 2024.
Roundtable organizer and moderator, “The Business of the University,” Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA, January 4-7, 2024.
Conference paper, “Reevaluating Blackness in the Sonnet: Terrance Hayes & Shakespeare,” Contemporary Poets and Early Modernity Seminar, Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, March 29-April 1, 2023.
Roundtable discussant, “Working Conditions in Access-Oriented Education,” Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, CA, January 5-8, 2023.
Conference paper, “Women’s Song and Comedy in Shakespeare’s Tragedies,” Earworms Seminar, Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, FL, April 6-9, 2022.
Roundtable discussant, “Access: Fundamental Issues,” Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, DC, January 6-9, 2022.
Workshop presenter, “Pushing Boundaries in the Study of Early Modern Poetry,” Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, March 31-April 3, 2021.
Roundtable discussant, “Instituting Access, Maintaining Structures for Persistence,” Invited participant in Executive Council Roundtable Session, Modern Language Association Convention, January 7-10, 2021.
Conference paper, “Anger as Rhetorical Strategy in Elizabeth I’s Speeches,” Early Modern Women’s Anger Seminar, Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, April 15-18, 2020, paper written and submitted for response; conference canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Conference paper, “Lyrics and Lyric: Using Popular Song to Teach Poetry and Poetics,” Invited submission to panel “Music, Text, and Pedagogy: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue,” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, March 5-8, 2020.
Seminar respondent, Shakespeare on the Contemporary Regional Stage Seminar, Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 17-20, 2019.
Invited lecture (with Robert Miller, Mount Saint Mary College), “O Happy Fault: The Human Element in the Creation of the Saint John’s Bible,” Caldwell University, Caldwell, NJ, April 8, 2019.
Conference paper, “Sounding Text: The Book and Performance in The Siege of Rhodes,” Early Modern Songscapes, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, February 8-9, 2019.
Conference paper, “A Case for Teaching Shakespeare’s Problem Plays to First-Generation Students,” First-Generation Shakespeare Seminar, Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 28-31, 2018.
Conference paper, “Empowering Students to Wield the Red Pen,” New Jersey College English Association Annual Conference, Seton Hall University, March 24, 2018.
Conference paper, “Song and Intertextuality in Othello,” Meta-Shakespeare Seminar, Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 5-8, 2017.
Roundtable discussant, “Teaching Inclusivity through Early Modern English Literature,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 30-April 1, 2017.
Workshop presenter, “What to Do with a Discovery in the Archive: Hester Pulter’s Manuscript and Other Found Objects,” Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 23-26, 2016.
Conference paper, “The Willow Song and the Comedy of Othello,” Rules of Playing and Theatrical Culture in Early Modern England Seminar, Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, April 10-12, 2014.
Conference paper, “Lyric and Lyrics: Poetry and Song in Shakespearean Drama and Its Adaptations,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New York, NY, March 27-29, 2014.
Conference paper, “Drunken Poets and Tripping Fairies: Poetry and Song in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Fairy Queen,” The Singing Body in Shakespeare Seminar, Shakespeare Association of America, Toronto, CA, March 28-30, 2013.