Mark Netzloff, Associate Professor
Office: Curtin Hall 484
Phone: 414-229-6992
e-mail: netzloff@uwm.edu
Degree(s):
Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1997
Research Interests:
Renaissance/Early Modern Studies:
- state formation and theories of sovereignty
- political theory and intellectual history
- English colonialism (transatlantic studies, Ireland, British Studies)
- travel writing
- literature, history and theories of nationhood
- capitalism and class relations (Marxist theories and historiography, New Economic Criticism)
Teaching Interests:
Renaissance/Early Modern Literature and Culture
Shakespeare
Literary and Cultural Theory
Other Relevant Activities:
Member, Executive Committee, Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library
Fellowships:
Institute for Research in the Humanities, 2009
Center for 21st Century Studies, 2001-2002
Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship, Huntington Library, 1997
Recent Publications:
Books:
Ed., John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue (1618): A Critical Edition. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity series. London and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, forthcoming in 2010.
England's Internal Colonies: Class, Capital, and the Literature of Early Modern English Colonialism. Early Modern Cultural Studies series. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Articles:
"The Ambassador's Household: Sir Henry Wotton, Domesticity, and Diplomatic Writing." In Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture. Ed. Robyn Adams and Rosanna Cox. Literature in History series. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.
"Science, Professionalism, and Agrarian Capitalism." Introduction to John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue. London and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, forthcoming in 2010. xi-lvi.
"The English Colleges and the English Nation: Allen, Persons, Verstegan, and Diasporic Nationalism." In Catholic Culture in Early Modern England. Ed. Ronald Corthell, Frances Dolan, Christopher Highley, and Arthur Marotti. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
"Sir Francis Drake's Ghost: Piracy, Cultural Memory, and Spectral Nationhood." In Pirates: The Politics of Plunder, 1550-1650. Literature in History Series. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 137-50.
"The Ulster Plantation and the Colonial Archive." In New Ways III: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society, 1997-2001. Ed. W. Speed Hill. Tempe, AZ: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 2004. 191-205.
"The Lead Casket: Capital, Mercantilism, and The Merchant of Venice." In Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism. Ed. Linda Woodbridge. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 159-76.
"Writing Britain from the Margins: Scottish, Irish, and Welsh Projects for American Colonization." Prose Studies 25 (2002): 1-24.
"'Counterfeit Egyptians' and Imagined Borders: Jonson's The Gypsies Metamorphosed." ELH 68 (2001): 763-92.
"Forgetting the Ulster Plantation: John Speed's The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (1611) and the Colonial Archive." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31 (2001): 313-48.
Current Research:
Book project:
Beyond the State: The Writings of English State Agents in Early Modern Europe
In the early modern period, political agency did not always cohere to state bodies or follow licensed channels, and states possessed a tenuous hold over the extraterritorial agents -- such as travelers, spies, mercenaries, and ambassadors -- who were instrumental in extending state authority beyond the territorial boundaries of the nation.
This project explores the social and institutional contexts in which the early modern state was written, examining state agents who were also among the earliest professional writers in early modern England. As they entered the realm of print and addressed a reading public, these agents transformed models of the state, rendering its administration and theoretical preconditions as subject matter for public analysis.
Topics discussed in this project include the early modern theorization of sovereignty and the state (Introduction); travel narratives and intelligence gathering networks (Chapter 1); the textual production of the seminaries established by English Catholic exiles on the Continent (Chapter 2); poetry and pamphlets stemming from England's illicit military interventions in the Low Countries (Chapter 3); the domestic life and intersubjective modes of writing that characterized the early modern embassy (Chapter 4); and the role of the Gunpowder Plot in emerging definitions of international law and statelessness (Chapter 5).
Articles and essays:
"Tragedy and Transitions: Situating Richard II in Histories of Capital and Sovereignty." In Richard II: New Critical Essays. Ed. Jeremy Lopez.
Public Diplomacy and the Comedy of State: Chapman's Monsieur D'Olive." In Handle With Care: Authority and Diplomacy From Wyatt to Spenser. Ed. Jason Powell and Will Rossiter.
"Catholic Exiles and the English State After the Gunpowder Plot." In Exile and Religious Identity in Early Modern Britain and Ireland. Ed. Christopher Highley.