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The Word 'Criminology': A Philology and a Definition This essay looks into the past of criminology as a way to think about its future. I take a philological approach to the word criminology , looking at the etymology and history of that word, to argue for...

“It Started Like a Guilty Thing”: The Beginning of Hamlet and the Beginning of Modern Politics King Hamlet is a tyrant and King Claudius a traitor but, because Shakespeare asked us to experience the events in Hamlet from the perspective of the young...

If your idea has legs, why not take it for a walk? Why I Write on My Mobile Phone: A short little essay, an ode to my son and, I suppose, to Irvine.

The Shakespeare and Criminology project was featured at the NPR Weekend in Washington. You Must Re-Think This: What The Bard Tells Us About Broken Windows and Policing After the recent police shootings in Ferguson and Staten Island, Science Correspondent...

"The Figure of Stigma in Shakespeare's Drama" was presented to the Harvard University Renaissance Colloquium. Abstract This paper is an attempt to theorize a tradition in Shakespeare’s drama involving some of his greatest and most captivating characters...

Part of the Stigma in Shakespeare project was presented at the conference Evil Incarnate: Manifestations of Villains and Villainy at Case Western Reserve University. Abstract The Renaissance was filled with a number of texts and traditions that...

Shakespeare and Criminology, the lead article for my project, was published in Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. Abstract This paper suggests that Shakespeare’s plays offer an embryonic version of criminology, and that they remain a...

“The Figure of Stigma in Shakespeare's 3 Henry VI: Abnormality, Villainy, Irony, Tragicomedy,” part of the Stigma in Shakespeare project, was presented at the Renaissance Society of America Conference in San Diego.

“The Ugly Truth: Thersites and the Satire of the Poetomachia,” part of the Stigma in Shakespeare project, was presented on the Early Modern Disabled Bodies and Cultural Discourses panel at the Modern Language Association Convention in Seattle.