York

Gretchen York

Assistant Professor, General Faculty

Contact
Office Hours: 12-3 on Mondays, and by appointment.
Class Schedule: MWF 10:00-10:50, MWF 11:00-11:50, MW 4:00-5:15
Education
 
Ph.D. University of Virginia
M.A. University of Virginia
B.A. Sarah Lawrence College
 
 
Research and Teaching Interests
 
Drama, esp. Shakespeare, medieval theater, and early modern theater
Shakespeare adapted and in performance
Literature and the Bible
Renaissance religious poetry, esp. Milton, Donne and Herbert

 

Recent Courses
  • Studies in Drama: Villainy on Stage
  • Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare and Company
  • Global Shakespeare on Film
  • Writing about the Arts: Shakespeare in Performance
  • Writing about the Arts: Gender and the American Musical

 

Selected Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
  • Folger Shakespeare Library Grant-in-Aid to attend the seminar “What Acting Is.” 2018.
  • Thomas J. Griffis Essay Prize. University of Virginia. 2016.
  • Bradley Dissertation Fellowship. University of Virginia. 2015.
  • Buckner W. Clay Teaching Initiative Grant to support a new course, “Global Shakespeare on Film.” Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures. 2015.
  • Robert J. Huskey Graduate Research Prize. University of Virginia. 2015.
  • Buckner W. Clay Doctoral Research Award. Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures. 2013.
  • RBS-UVA Fellowship. Rare Book School. 2014.

 

Selected Research Presentations
  •  “When God Was ‘Gaud’: John Bale’s Vernacular Drama and the Medieval Origins of the Protestant Bible” (paper accepted). Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. Albuquerque, NM. October, 2018.
  • “Catholic Drama, the Protestant Bible, and Eve’s ‘Wat’ry Image’ in Paradise Lost.” Jefferson Scholars Foundation. Charlottesville, VA. April, 2018.
  • “New Delight: The Legacy of Regional Biblical Drama in Milton’s Comus.” Renaissance Society of America. Chicago, IL. April, 2017.
  • “Performing Christ in Tudor England.” Antitheatricalism and Performance. Modern Language Association Convention. Philadelphia, PA. January, 2017.
  • “Staged Reading: Shakespeare, Bale, and the Biblical Text.” Tudor Shakespeares. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America. Vancouver, British Columbia. April, 2015.
  • Organizer, “Devotional Practice and Poisoned Stage Properties in Renaissance English Revenge Tragedy.” Workshop presentation by Holly Pickett. University of Virginia. April, 2015.
  • “‘Sorrowe no more’: Transcending Adam’s Fall on the Early English Stage.” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. New Orleans, LA. October, 2014.
  • Co-organizer, “Milton, Search, and the History of Style.” Lecture by Daniel Shore. University of Virginia. February, 2014.
  • “Pronouns and the Shifting Subject Perspectives of Patience.” Pearl-Poet Society. 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May, 2013.
  • “Revisionary Disclosures: Re-reading in Cymbeline.” Re-Reading Shakespeare. 40th Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America. Toronto, Ontario. March, 2013.

 

University Service
  • Co-Founder and Director, University of Virginia Renaissance Workshop. 2013-2015.
  • Renaissance Area Group Representative, Graduate English Students’ Association. 2012-2015. 
  • Graduate Student Mentor, Graduate English Students’ Association. 2012, 2014, 2015.
  • Director, University of Virginia Graduate Students’ Latin Reading Group. 2011-2012.
  • Member, Abstract Committee, Graduate English Students’ Association Conference. 2010-2011.