Faculty (Alphabetical) --- Faculty (by Research Interest)
Dr. Erin Weinberg
Instructor
Office: 618 Fletcher Argue Building
Phone: N/A
Email: Erin.Weinberg@umanitoba.ca
Education: PhD (Queen’s), MA Shakespeare (Royal Holloway, University of London), BAH (Queen’s)
Recent courses:
• Reading the Contemporary World
• Academic Reading, Writing, and Thinking
• Introduction to Literary Genres
• Shakespeare and Contagion
• Shakespeare and Rebellion
Areas of specialization:
First-year English survey and composition courses; the Study of Teaching and Learning (SoTL); Shakespeare’s drama; Jane Austen’s novels; trauma; affect; feminism; memoirs of cult survivors; literature and food
Recent publications, presentations, and other undertakings:
• Presentation. “Jane Austen’s ‘Bad Boys’.” Kingston Frontenac Public Library, Kingston, Ontario. February 2021.
• Presentation. “‘A maid and stuffed: Embodied vs. discursive virginity in Much Ado About Nothing.” Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting. Seminar 52: “Signs of the Sexed Body in Early Modern Drama.” Washington, USA. April 2019.
• Presentation. “‘Make Those That Do Offend You Suffer, Too’: The Cuckoldry of Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing.” Authority, Gender and Social Relations: Durham Early Modern Studies Conference. Durham University, England. July 2018.
• Presentation. “Reading Emotional Objects in Persuasion.” Edmonton Jane Austen Society, Edmonton Alberta. April 2018.
• Publication. “Why it’s right for Titus Andronicus to come with a trigger warning,” New Statesman, https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/education/2017/10/why-it-s-right-titus-andronicus-come-trigger-warning
• Presentation. “‘Occupation for an Idle Hour, and Consolation in a Distressed One’: Reading and Affect in Jane Austen’s Persuasion.” Jane Austen and the Arts: A Bicentenary Conference at SUNY Plattsburgh, USA. March 2017.
• Publication. “‘Urging Helpless Patience’: Domesticity, Stoicism, and Setting in The Comedy of Errors.” Early Modern Literary Studies (EMLS) Special Issue: “Rome and Home: The Cultural Uses of Rome in Early Modern English Literature” (2016): 1-21.
Useful links:
• www.drerinweinberg.com
• Internet Shakespeare Editions
• OWL @ Purdue Formatting Guide