Kirk Melnikoff

Related People
Alan Rauch

Education

  • Ph.D., Boston University
  • M.A., Boston University
  • B.A., Lehigh University

Areas of Interest

  • Elizabethan Literature
  • History of the Book
  • Performance History
  • Shakespeare on Film

Recent Publications 

  • “Publishing Virginia (1608-1615): Specialization, Commissioning, Networks” The Oxford Handbook to the History of the Book in Early Modern England. Ed. Adam Smyth. Oxford UP, 2021.
  • Contributing Editor, James IV, Routledge Anthology of Non-Shakespearean Drama, Ed. Jeremy Lopez. Routledge, 2020, 508-74.
  • “Isabella Whitney amongst the Stalls of Richard Jones.” Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England. Ed. Valerie Wayne. Arden, 2020, 145-61.
  • Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture. University of Toronto Press, 2018.
  • Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce and the Book Trade (with Roslyn L. Knutson). Cambridge University Press, 2018.
  • “Shakespeare’s Urban Comedies and the Lure of True Crime and Satire.” The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy. Ed. Heather Hirchfeld. Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • Edward II: A Critical Guide. Arden, 2017.

Recent Presentations

  • “Women, Wills, and the Early English Book Trade (1537-1666),” USTC Gender and the Book Trades Conference, St Andrews, Scotland, June, 2021.

Current Projects

  • Editor, Selimus, Queen’s Men Editions. University of Victoria: Internet Shakespeare Editions, 2022.
  • Contributing Editor, Edward II, Christopher Marlowe Collected Works. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Courses Taught

  • ENGL 3050: Shakespeare in Performance
  • ENGL 3100: Approaches to Literature
  • ENGL 3301: British Literature Survey I
  • ENGL 4116: Early Shakespeare
  • ENGL 4117: Late Shakespeare
  • ENGL 4131: Early English Drama
  • ENGL 4750: Monarchal Shakespeare
  • ENGL 6111: Shakespeare’s Comedies and Histories
  • ENGL 6680: Shakespeare on Film
  • ENGL 6680: Marlowe on the Stage and Page