Mark Netzloff
- Professor, English
Education
PhD, University of Delaware
Office Hours
On sabbatical, Fall 2026
Courses Taught
- English 302: Survey of English Literature, 1500-1660
- English 304: Survey of English Literature, 1798-1900
- English 452: Shakespeare
- English 454: Milton
- English 458: Writers in English Literature, 1798-1900: The Nineteenth-Century British Novel
- English 625: Seminar in Literary History: The Global Early Modern
- English 740: Approaches to the Modern: Political Theory, Early Modern to the Present
- English 771: Literature of the English Renaissance: Early Modern Cultural Studies
- English 820: Theory and Practice of Literary Pedagogy
- English 845: Seminar in Shakespeare
- English 862: Seminar in Victorian Literature: The Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Teaching Interests
- Renaissance/Early Modern Literature
- Shakespeare
- Milton and the English Revolution
- Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Related Activities
Chair, English Department, 2014-2017
Coordinator, Literature and Cultural Theory Program, 2020-23, 2007-09, 2002-05
Current Research
New Variorum Shakespeare edition of All's Well That Ends Well.
Books
Agents Beyond the State: The Writings of English Travelers, Soldiers, and Diplomats in Early Modern Europe. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Editor, with Darlene Farabee and Bradley Ryner, Early Modern Drama in Performance: Essays in Honor of Lois Potter. University of Delaware Press, 2014.
John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue (1618): A Critical Edition. Ashgate, 2010.
England's Internal Colonies: Class, Capital, and the Literature of Early Modern English Colonialism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Selected Publications
"Embassies and Diplomatic Visits." In Oxford Handbook on Travel, Identity, and Race in Early Modern England. Ed. Nandini Das. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
“Lines of Amity: The Law of Nations in the Americas.” In Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World. Ed. Joanna Craigwood and Tracey Sowerby. Oxford University Press, 2019. 54-68.
“Jonson’s Volpone and the Information Economy of Anglo-Venetian Travel and Intelligence.” In Mediterranean Identities in the Premodern Era: Islands, Entrepôts, Empires. Ed. John Watkins and Kathryn Reyerson. Ashgate, 2014. 73-89.
“The State and Early Modernity.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 14 (2014): 149-154.
“Work.” In Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England. Ed. Andrew Hadfield and Matthew Dimmock. Ashgate, 2014. 163-76.
“Public Diplomacy and the Comedy of State: Chapman's Monsieur D'Olive.” In Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare. Ed. Jason Powell and Will Rossiter. Ashgate, 2013. 185-97.
“Insurgent Time: Richard II and the Periodization of Sovereignty.” In Richard II: New Critical Essays. Ed. Jeremy Lopez. Routledge, 2012. 202-22.
“The Ambassador's Household: Sir Henry Wotton, Domesticity, and Diplomatic Writing.” In Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture. Ed. Robyn Adams and Rosanna Cox. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 155-71.
“Catholic Exiles and the English State After the Gunpowder Plot.” Reformation 15 (2010): 151-67.
“Sir Francis Drake’s Ghost: Piracy, Cultural Memory, and Spectral Nationhood.” In Pirates: The Politics of Plunder, 1550-1650. Ed. Claire Jowitt. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 137-50.
“The English Colleges and the English Nation: Allen, Persons, Verstegan, and Diasporic Nationalism.” In Catholic Culture in Early Modern England. Ed. Ronald Corthell, Frances Dolan, Christopher Highley, and Arthur Marotti. University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. 236-60.
“The Ulster Plantation and the Colonial Archive.” In New Ways III: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1997-2001 (2004): 191-205.
“The Lead Casket: Capital, Mercantilism, and The Merchant of Venice.” In Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism. Ed. Linda Woodbridge. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 159-76.
“Writing Britain from the Margins: Scottish, Irish, and Welsh Projects for American Colonization.” Prose Studies 25 (2002): 1-24.
"`Counterfeit Egyptians' and Imagined Borders: Jonson's The Gypsies Metamorphosed.” ELH 68 (2001): 763-92.
“Forgetting the Ulster Plantation: John Speed's The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (1611) and the Colonial Archive.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31 (2001): 313-48.