Marissa Greenberg, Ph.D
Biography
Dr. Greenberg is Special Assistant to the VP of DiCE and Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature. Dr. Greenberg is an internationally recognized scholar in early modern English literature with an extensive record of publications (see below) and grants, including grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the University of Oregon Special Collections and University Libraries, and UNM’s Center for Regional Studies, Feminist Research Institute, and Research Allocation Committee. Dr. Greenberg is also an award-winning teacher, receiving UNM’s Presidential Teaching Fellowship, Online Teacher of the Year Award, New Faculty Teacher of the Year Award, and multiple grants from the Center for Teaching and Learning. Her current research focuses on literary depictions of revolutionary bodies in the writings of 17th-century English poet and polemicist John Milton and their adaptations by 20th- and 21st-century American women authors and artists. As a faculty fellow with DiCE, Dr. Greenberg initiated research and initiatives to establish a community of practice to strengthen UNM’s infrastructure for addressing the stigmatization of faculty who have disabilities, and she is honored to continue this work as Special Assistant to the VP.
Select Publications
Monograph
Metropolitan Tragedy: Genre, Justice, and the City in Early Modern England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. 248 pages. Reviews in CHOICE 53, no. 3 (2015): 418; Renaissance Quarterly 69, no. 3 (2016): 1188-90; University of Toronto Quarterly 86, no. 3 (2017): 166-68; Early Modern Culture 12 (2017): Article 14; Shakespeare Studies 47 (2019): 263-78.
Edited Collections & Special Issues
Milton’s Moving Bodies, co-edited with Rachel Trubowitz. Rethinking the Early Modern. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2024. Winner of the Irene Samuel Memorial Award from the Milton Society of America.
Situating Shakespeare Pedagogy in US Higher Education: Social Justice and Institutional Contexts, co-edited with Elizabeth Williamson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. Available OA: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-situating-shakespeare-pedagogy-in-us-higher-education.html. Review in Borrowers and Lenders 16, no. 2 (2025): 85-87.
Early Modern Digital Review (EMDR), 6, no. 2, Special Issue on Podcasts (2023),https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/emdr/issue/view/2803. Print publication in Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme 46, no. 2 (2023), 127-98.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
“Confronting Disability Pasts, Constructing Disability Futures: Recommendations for Growing Access, Equity, and Inclusion for Disabled Faculty in Higher Education,” with Siobhán M. Cully. Social Sciences, Special Issue on Restorative Justice Practices Within Higher Education and the Arts: Addressing Complex Legacies of Harm, 15, no. 2 (2026): 94. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci15020094.
“Shakespeare in Activism: Podcasts, Processions, and the Public’s Richard II.” Shakespeare. Special Issue on Shakespeare in Action, edited by Eleanor Rycroft and Maria Shmygol (online publication 2023; print publication 2024). DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2023.2171709. Winner of the 2024 Barbara Hodgdon Award from the Shakespeare Association of America.
“Milton’s Martial Bodies and Tikkun Olam,” Milton Studies. Special Issue on Is Milton Good for the Jews?, edited by Stephen Dobranski and Rachel Trubowitz, 66, no. 2 (2024): 216-39.
Essays in Edited Collections
“Snaking the Path: Disability, Pedagogy, Justice,” in Milton’s Moving Bodies, edited by Marissa Greenberg and Rachel Trubowitz, 283-309. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2024.
“Tragedy and Knowledge.” Routledge Resources Online – The Renaissance World, edited by Wendy Beth Hyman (Subject Area Editor for “Knowledge”) and Kristen Poole (General Editor). Routledge, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367347093-RERW49-1.
“Caucusing in the Online Literature Classroom,” with Elizabeth Williamson. Teaching Literature in the Online Classroom, edited by John Miller and Julie Wilhelm, 125-39. New York: MLA, 2022.
“Shakespeare’s Ghosts: Staging Colonial Histories in New Mexico.” Shakespeare and Latinidad, edited by Carla Della Gatta and Trevor Boffone, 97-111. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
“Playing (In) the Streets: The Merchant of Venice and Adaptation.” Games and Theatre in Early Modern England, edited by Gina Bloom, Tom Bishop, and Erika T. Lin, 179-98. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
Public-Facing Scholarship
Interview about Milton’s Moving Bodies, with Rachel Trubowitz and John Yargo (host). Podcast. New Books Network, December 10, 2024.
“Shakespeare Teachers Strike Back: Three strategies for engaging in politically responsive pedagogy in the age of (another) DEI backlash,” with Elizabeth Williamson. Blog. Edinburgh University Press website, September 17, 2024.
Promiscuous Listening: A John Milton Podcast. 11 episodes, 2021-2022.
“Inclusive Mentoring: Equity and Diversity as Practice,” with Nancy López, Elizabeth Hutchison, and Assata Zerai. The Chronicle of Mentoring and Coaching 5, Special Issue 14 (Dec. 2021): 92-99.
“Podcast Pedagogy.” The Sundial (text and audio), January 12, 2021.
“Rethinking Productivity during COVID-19,” with Elizabeth Williamson. Academic Leader, July 6, 2020. Reprinted in Leading Through Crisis, Conflict, and Change, edited by Jon Cryden. 25-29. Madison, WI: Magna Publications, 2020.
“What counts as proximity?” Inside Higher Ed, February 26, 2020.
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