Patricia Fumerton

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Ph.D., Stanford University, 1981

Patricia Fumerton

Professor
English Department
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170

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"It is not the case that the breakaway moments in history that have always been the great motivators of new historical methods inhere only in such loud political events as interregnum or civil war . . . Interregnum, that is, is to be found in the detachment of Charles's head: but it may also be found, with just as much lived momentousness, in the detachment of a child from its family . . . in the detachment of a jeweled locket from the portrait it contains, or in the less literal detachment that is the hallmark of aesthetic experience."

--from Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament (University of Chicago Press, 1991)

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Patricia Fumerton is a Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she has taught since 1987. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1981, and has also taught at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and at Yale University. Her central interests include sixteenth- and seventeenth-century culture and literature, high and popular culture, visual culture, subjectivity, and postmodernism. Professor Fumerton serves as the Director of the Early Modern Center. She is the author of Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England (2006), Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament (1991), and co-editor of Renaissance Culture and the Everyday (1999). Articles include most recently “Subdiscourse: Johnson Speaking Low” (ELR, 1995); “New Historicism and the Cultural Aesthetics of the High Elizabethan Lyric” (2000); “London’s Vagrant Economy: Making Space for ‘Low’ Subjectivity” (2000), and “Not Home: Alehouses, Ballads, and the Vagrant Husband in Early Modern England” (JMEMS, 2000).

Areas of Interest

Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century culture and literature
Sidney, Spenser, Jonson
High and low subjectivity
Vagrancy and spatial mobility
Popular Broadsides

Books and Recent Articles

"Remembering by Dismembering: Databases, Archiving, and the Recollection of Seventeenth-Century Broadside Ballads," article for forthcoming special issue of Early Modern Literary Studies (EMLS), edited by Shawn Martin, EEBO-TCP
"Mocking Aristocratic Place: The Perspective of the Streets," Early Modern Culture (fall 2008)
Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England (University of Chicago Press, 2006)
"Making Vagrancy (In)Visible: The Economics of Disguise in Early Modern Rogue Pamphlets," English Literary Renaissance 33.2 (Spring 2003): 211-27; reprinted in Rogues and Early Modern Literary Culture: A Critical Anthology, eds. Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz, (University of Michigan Press, 2004), pp. 193-210
Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, co-edited with Simon Hunt (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999)
Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament (University of Chicago Press, 1991).
~ also published in Japanese, together with a new Author's Preface, trans. Shogo Ikuta, Osamu Yagawa, and Akira Inoue (Tokyo: Shohakusha Press, 1996)
Various articles on the literature and culture of the lower orders, gift exchange and Spenser's Garden of Adonis, miniature painting and sonnets, Spenserian stylistics, minoritarian languages, the new historicism, vagrancy, mobility, and ballad culture

Current Projects

Currently directing the digitizing of all early English broadside ballads, with an emphasis on the ornamental black-letter broadsides of the seventeenth century, as part of the Early Modern Center's English Broadside Ballads Archive (EBBA). Also working on a book on black-letter and the idea of blackness in early modern England and America.

The Moving Matter of Broadside Ballads: The Lady and the Blackamoor (book project contracted to University of Chicago Press)
Early English Broadside Ballads: From the Pepys Collection (edition contracted with Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Arizona State University Press)
Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800, collection of essays co-edited with Anita Guerrini (contracted with Ashgate Press)
"Preface" and "Samuel Pepys and his Ballad Collection" essay for Pepys Collection edition
"The Pepys Ballad Archive: from Theory to Practice," article co-written with Simone Chess, Tassie Gniady, and Kris McAbee, for MLA edition, Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives
"Introduction" and "Remembering by Dismembering" essay (revised) for Ballads and Broadsides edition

Recent Course Offerings

Courses

Quarter	Course	Title
Winter 2010	ENGL 15	Introduction to Shakespeare
Winter 2010	ENGL 15S	Seminar for Introduction to Shakespeare
Winter 2010	ENGL 231	Studies in Renaissance Literature : Popular Print, Ballad Culture, and the Roxburghe Archive
Spring 2009	ENGL 595BP	Early Modern Center Colloquium : Ballad Project
Winter 2009	ENGL 595BP	Early Modern Center Colloquium : Ballad Project
Fall 2008	ENGL 105A	Shakespeare: Poems and Early Plays
Fall 2008	ENGL 105AS	Seminar for Shakespeare: Poems and Early Plays : Honors seminar
Fall 2008	ENGL 595BP	Early Modern Center Colloquium : Ballad Project
Winter 2008	ENGL 105A	Shakespeare: Poems and Early Plays
Winter 2008	ENGL 105AS	Seminar for Shakespeare: Poems and Early Plays
Winter 2008	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Early English Broadside Ballads
Fall 2007	ENGL 595A	Early Modern Center Colloquium
Spring 2007	ENGL 105A	Shakespeare: Poems and Early Plays
Spring 2007	ENGL 105AS	Seminar for Shakespeare: Poems and Early Plays
Winter 2007	ENGL 231	Studies in Renaissance Literature : English Broadside Ballads, 1500-1800
Fall 2005	ENGL 101	English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650
Fall 2005	ENGL 101S	Seminar for English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650
Fall 2004	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : English Broadside Ballads, 1550-1800
Fall 2004	ENGL 231	Studies in Renaissance Literature : English Broadside Ballads, 1550-1800
Spring 2004	ENGL 105A	Shakespeare: Poems and Early Plays
Spring 2004	ENGL 105AS	Seminar for Shakespeare: Poems and Early Plays
Spring 2004	ENGL 595	Early Modern Center Colloquium
Winter 2004	ENGL 165FD	Topics in Literature
Winter 2004	ENGL 165FD	Topics in Literature
Winter 2004	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Home & World: A Lowly Pe
Winter 2004	ENGL 231	Studies in Renaissance Literature : Home and World: A Lowly Perspective
Winter 2004	ENGL 595	Early Modern Center Colloquium
Fall 2003	ENGL 595	Early Modern Center Colloquium
Spring 2003	ENGL 165VA	Topics in Literature : Literature and the Visual Arts: The Renaissance Self
Winter 2003	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Women Writers, 1550-1700
Winter 2003	ENGL 265	Seminar in Special Topics : Early Modern Women Writers, 1550-1700
Fall 2002	ENGL 105A	Shakespeare: Poems and Early Plays
Fall 2002	ENGL 105AS	Seminar for Shakespeare: Poems and Early Plays
Spring 2002	ENGL 165RB	Topics in Literature : Renaissance Beauties: Literature and the Visual Arts
Winter 2002	ENGL 105A	Shakespeare: Poems and Early Plays : Early Shakespeare
Fall 2001	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Early Modern Visual Culture
Fall 2001	ENGL 231	Studies in Renaissance Literature : Early Modern Visual Culture

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