Angela Courtney
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Associate Librarian and Head, Arts and Humanities
Librarian for English and American Literature, Theatre, Film Studies, Communication and Culture, Telecommunications, and Comparative Literature (812) 855-1891 |
Education
MLIS, University of Texas, Austin
MA in English Literature, University of Georgia
BA in English Literature (minor in Theatre), James Madison University
Research interests
• Nineteenth-century drama
• Literature of Australia and New Zealand
• Textual editing in the digital age
Courses taught
L623, Information in the Humanities
Selected publications and presentations
Books
Editor, The Dictionary of Literary Biography—Nineteenth Century British Dramatists. Detroit: The Gale Group, 2008.
American Nationalism and Romanticism. Literary Research Series. Scarecrow Press. 2007.
Articles / Chapters
“The Boy Genius and the Bard: Orson Welles, Childhood, and Everybody’s Shakespeare.”
Shakespeare 2.2. December 2006, 194-207.
Guide to Reference Sources, Literature Section. Chicago, American Library Association, 2008.
“Tom Robertson.” Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Eds. Gabrielle Cody and Evert Sprinchorn.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
Henry Arthur Jones.” Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Eds. Gabrielle Cody and Evert
Sprinchorn. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
“Dion Boucicault.” The Dictionary of Literary Biography—Nineteenth Century British Dramatists.
The Gale Group, 2008.
“George Catlin.” Early American Nature Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 2007.
Papers / Presentations
“Since Poetry’s the Rage: or, Victorian Vernacular Poetry in Australian Newspapers of the
1840s.” Victorian Beginnings at the University of Western Australia, Perth (7-11 January 2007).
“Teaching Researchers to Teach: The Pedagogical Impact of EEBO and the Future of
Librarianship.” (de)materializing the early modern text: Early English Books Online in
Teaching and Research at Bath Spa University, Bath, UK (8-9 September 2005).
"Rum, Phlebotomy, and the Lash: The Evolution of the Renaissance Anatomy Theatre as
Popular Entertainment." Theatres of Science: Crossovers and Confluences (An Interdisciplinary Conference) at the University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales, UK (8-11 September, 2004).
“The River She was a Man: Edna Ferber, Oscar Hammerstein, and the Adaptation of Show
Boat.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference. (April 7-10, 2004).
“Out of the Classroom, Onto the Stage: Orson Welles, Roger Hill, and the Genesis of
Everybody’s Shakespeare.” Shakespeare's Children/Children's Shakespeare Conference—University of Surrey Roehampton Centre for Renaissance Studies, London, UK. (October 11-12, 2003).
