Daniel Pollack-Pelzner - Assistant Professor

Day Hall 318
503-883-2484
dpollac@linfield.edu

Education: B.A., Yale University, 2001; M.A., Harvard University, 2006; Ph.D., Harvard University, 2010

Academic Interests:
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner joined the Linfield faculty in 2010. He offers courses on Shakespeare and early modern literature through the primary lenses of genre, gender, and performance. He also teaches a range of topics in British literary history, with emphasis on the novel, and offers a January-term course on contemporary drama through the Portland campus. An Oregon native, he lectures frequently at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and is the scholar-in-residence at the Portland Shakespeare Project.

Dr. Pollack-Pelzner's research explores the ways that Shakespeare has been adapted and appropriated, particularly in the nineteenth century. He is completing a book project on Shakespeare and the Victorian novel, portions of which have appeared in the scholarly journals ELH: English Literary History, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, and Victorian Studies. He regularly presents work at the Shakespeare Association of America and the North American Victorian Studies Association and is a member of the faculty at the University of California Dickens Project.

Publications:

• "Jane Austen, the Prose Shakespeare," forthcoming in SEL: Studies in English Literature (Autumn 2013).


• "Shakespeare Burlesque and the Performing Self," Victorian Studies 54.3 (Spring 2012): 401-9.


• "Dickens and Shakespeare's Household Words," ELH: English Literary History 78.3 (Fall 2011): 533-56.


• "Swiping Stein: The Ambivalence of Hemingway Parodies," The Hemingway Review 30.1 (Fall 2010): 69-82.


• "'Another Key' to Act Five of A Midsummer Night's Dream," Notes and Queries 56.4 (December 2009): 579-83.


• "Reading and Repeating Our Mutual Friend," Dickens Studies Annual 39 (2008): 261-79.


• "Revisionary Company: Keats, Homer, and Dante in the Chapman Sonnet," Keats-Shelley Journal 56 (2007): 39-49.


• "Dickens's Hamlet Burlesque," Dickens Quarterly 24.2 (June 2007): 103-10.


• "On Not Teaching Wodehouse," The Quarterly Journal of the P. G. Wodehouse Society 39 (September 2006): 10-11.

Media Links

Linfield Magazine article about January-term contemporary drama course on the Portland campus:
http://www.linfield.edu/magazine/summer2013/#/20/

Video discussion of teaching at Linfield:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t333-sWv8A

Work with the Portland Shakespeare Project:
http://portlandshakes.org/education/audience-enrichment-programs/

Four-part essay series for Oregon Arts Watch about The Taming of the Shrew:
http://www.orartswatch.org/summer-of-shrew-part-1-a-tale-of-two-cities/

KBOO radio interview about summer Shakespeare:
http://kboo.com/content/stageandstudioon070913

OPB radio interview about the Shakespeare authorship controversy:
http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/shows/class-shakespeare/

Expert forum for The Millions about Dickens’s best novel:
http://www.themillions.com/2012/08/dickens-best-novel-6-experts-share-their-opinions.html

Courses Taught at Linfield

Shakespeare: Comedies and Histories, Shakespeare: Tragedies and Tragicomedies, Shakespeare: Performing Gender and Sexuality (Gender Studies Elective), Shakespeare and his Rivals, Sex and Power in Renaissance Literature, Eighteenth-Century Satire, The Victorian Novel, 20th-Century British Literature, Art and Politics in the British Novel, Contemporary Drama (Portland Campus), Coming of Age in Literature, Inquiry Seminar: A Sense of Humor, Inquiry Seminar: Literary Adaptation from Austen to Zombies