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Dr. Travis Curtright

Dr. Travis Curtright

assistant professor

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travis.curtright@avemaria.edu
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Travis Curtright, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, Chairman of the Literature Department, and a Research Fellow of the Center for Thomas More Studies. His interests include English Renaissance literature, especially Shakespeare, the classical rhetorical tradition, prose style, and literary representations of leadership.

Selected Publications

“Shakespearean Personalism,” LOGOS: A Journal of Catholic Thought 10:1 (2007): 56-79

“A ‘Pre-Machiavellian Moment’: Thomas More’s Poetry and the History of Richard III,” The Ben Jonson Journal, 13 (2006): 63-82

“Sidney’s Defence of Poetry: Ethos and the Ideas” in The Ben Jonson Journal, 10 (2003): 101-115.

Shakespeare’s Last Plays: Essays in Politics and Literature, edited by Stephen W. Smith and Travis Curtright, Lexington Books, July 2002

“Reconsidering the Tragic Aspects of Leontes: Death and Laughter in The Winter’s Tale” in English Language Notes: Medieval and Renaissance Special Edition 40:1 (September 2002): 43-57

Book reviews for The Review of Politics, Sixteenth Century Journal, Religion and the Arts, and Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy.

Conferences and Seminars

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Boston University, Masters of Prose: Samuel Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, and Winston Churchill, July 9- 27, 2007

"‘These Matters Be Kinges Games': More's Poetry and the History of Richard III," 2006 Thomas More Conference, Center for Thomas More Studies, Nov 3-5, 2006

Conference Director, "Liberty and the American Dream," Liberty Fund, Savannah, Georgia, March 30-April 2, 2006.

"More, Fortune, and the Politics of Accommodation,"  2005 Thomas More Conference, Center for Thomas More Studies, November 4-6, 2005

"‘I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly': Repetitio and the Ethos of Marina," Shakespeare Association of America Conference, Repetitio Seminar, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 8-10, 2004

"Shakespearean Ethics: Conscience and Tragic Choice," Annual Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture Conference, October 2, 2003

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