Professor
Office: 506-Y Leonard Hall
Email: corchard@iup.edu
Education
DPhil, University of Oxford, 1994
Academic Interests
English Civil War and Republican literature in the 1640s and 1650s. I am interested in how the different ideologies of court and parliamentary culture played out in how writers thought about the function of drama, whether in the form of new printings of old plays or new plays printed for the first time.
Post-9/11 literature. I have taught courses on post-9/11 plays and novels, focusing my teaching on geopolitical areas of crisis that stretch globally from New York to London and from Toyko to Afghanistan.
Translations in the seventeenth century. Interested in how writers used translations for political messaging, whether this was Virgil, Sophocles or Aesop.
Adaptation theory. Using as many opportunities as possible to talk about the value of adaptation as pedagogical practice, whether this is Shakespeare or novels.
Publications
My latest book is Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain. Routledge. Hardback 2023. Paperback 2024.
I have published numerous articles on Renaissance writers such as Katherine Philips and Ben Jonson, and an article in an edited essay collection on an adaptation of The Tempest is forthcoming.