Julia Schleck
212 Andrews Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588−0333
(402)472−1844 (office)
Degrees and institutions granting the degree
- Ph.D. English Language and Literature, New York University (2006)
- B.A. English Literature and Music, Drew University (1999)
Professional Areas of Specialty
Renaissance literature, including drama, lyric poetry and prose
Travel writing and early modern colonial writings
Interdisciplinary interests include Renaissance music and history of science
Genre studies, Cultural Materialism/ Marxism
Selected publications and/or projects
Books:
My current book project treats early modern English travel and news reports of the Ottoman Empire and Persia. Following historian of science Steven Shapin’s A Social History of Truth, I argue that the credibility accorded the details in travel relations depended upon the social standing of the traveler-witness rather than a concern for empiricism or a formal verisimilitude to “facts,” an epistemological construct which did not exist in this period. My project seeks to break this alliance of power and knowledge-production by recovering other forms of Anglo-Islamic writing and insisting upon their inclusion in a newly expanding archive of literary materials.
"Hakluyt, Historical Formalism, and the captivity of Thomas Saunders: a study in the ideology of form," in Richard Hakluyt and Collected Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe, Dan Carey and Claire Jowitt, eds. (Ashgate & The Hakluyt Society), forthcoming.
Fair and Balanced’ News from the Continent: English Newsbook Readers and the Thirty-Years War. Prose Studies 29, no. 3 (2007): 323-335.
‘Plain Broad Narratives of Substantial Facts’: Credibility, Narrative, and Hakluyt’s The
Principal Navigations. Renaissance Quarterly 59, no. 3 (Autumn 2006): 768-794.
Courses Regularly Taught
Shakespeare (English 230 & 4/830)
Renaissance Literature (English 363)
Introduction to Literary Study (English 200)
