Pamela Allen Brown
Professor Emerita
English
About
Professor Pamela Allen Brown has taught Shakespeare, poetry, drama, creative writing, and other courses since 1998, and in 2005-6 she served as Director of the London Program. A poet and playwright, she has poems published or forthcoming in Mojave River Review, Public, Epiphany, New Square, P/rose, The Sonnets Remixed, and Visual Verse. Her one-act plays have been performed at St. Marks Poetry Project and LaMama e.t.c. (The Fit in the Choir), and the Boston Director’s Lab (The Ice House). She has also directed a short film featuring Isabella Andreini’s writing and acting, The Amorous Debate on Arms and Letters.
In addition to many articles and chapters, she has published the following:
The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespeare Stage: Agency, Theatricality and the Innamorata (Oxford UP, 2022)
Specialties
- Gender, Sexuality, theatricality, and performativity
- Shakespeare and non-Shakespearean Drama on stage and in film
- Diva Studies
- Traveling players and theatrical circulation between Italy and England
- Thinking with monsters: sex, race, disability, and the extraordinary body
- Racialization and stage types, medieval to contemporary
- Early modern women playwrights, players, and poets
- Renaissance laughter, jokes, fools, folly, and madness
- Bad Fun, or the comedy of sadism
| pamela.brown@uconn.edu | |
| CV | Pamela Allen Brown |
| Mailing Address | University of Connecticut Stamford Campus 1 University Place Stamford, CT 06901 |
| Campus | Stamford, retired |
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