Dorothy Todd
  • Associate Digital Editor, New Variorum Shakespeare
  • Instructional Assistant Professor

Biography

Dr. Todd specializes in early modern English drama, with research and teaching interests in Shakespeare, material culture, book history and bibliography, and adaptation and appropriation. She is currently editing Thomas Heywood’s Londini Status Pacatus: or, London’s Peaceable Estate (1639 text) for The Map of Early Modern London. Her book project focuses on how Shakespeare’s plays foreground changing understandings of time and temporality in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2017
  • B.A., Washington and Lee University, 2010

Selected Publications

  • Ash, Rust, and Ooze: Funereal Rituals and Tombs in Pericles.” In The Shakespearean Death Arts: Hamlet Among the Tombs. Edited by William Engel and Grant Williams (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 113-31. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88490-1_6

    “Oh This Learning, What a Thing It Is!’: Service Learning Shakespeare and Community Partnerships.” This Rough Magic, December 2016.