Rate My Professor James Mardock

James Mardock is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, listed among the Literature faculty. He joined the English faculty in 2006. Mardock teaches undergraduate courses including CH 201: To Hell with the Humanities, ENG 433A: Shakespeare, Histories and Tragedies, ENG 433B: Shakespeare, Comedies and Romances, ENG 441A: The Renaissance, ENG 464A: Drama Before Shakespeare, ENG 465A: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, and others focused on early modern literature. His graduate seminars cover ENG 711: Intro to Graduate Study, ENG 761: The Faerie Queene and its Contexts, ENG 764: City Comedy, and ENG 764: Drama and the Reformation. He holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance Literature from the University of Wisconsin in 2004, an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin in 1997, an M.A. in Shakespeare Studies from the Shakespeare Institute in 1996, and a B.A. in English from the University of Kansas in 1995.

Mardock's research interests encompass Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, Jonson, drama, theater history, and the Protestant Reformation. He authored Our Scene is London: Jonson's City and the Space of the Author (Routledge, 2008), analyzing Jonson's representation of urban space as part of his authorial strategy. Mardock edited Henry V: A Broadview Internet Shakespeare Edition (Broadview Press, 2014), co-edited Stages of Engagement: Drama and Religion in Post-Reformation England with Kathryn McPherson (Duquesne University Press, 2014), and contributed with Eric Rasmussen to 'What does textual evidence reveal about the author?' in Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy, edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He has published articles on Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Dickens, and John Taylor the water-poet. As general textual editor for the Internet Shakespeare Editions, he supports scholarly access to early modern drama. His current projects include a book-length study of Calvin's influence on early modern drama. Mardock serves as house dramaturge for the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival and Reno Little Theater, directed productions of Henry V and The Winter's Tale, performed roles such as Claudius in Hamlet (2011), and organizes The Blood, Love, and Rhetoric School, staging readings of early plays like 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, The Jew of Malta, and Gammer Gurton's Needle.