Mario DiGangi

mario.digangi@lehman.cuny.edu
718-960-8497
Carman Hall 398

Education

Ph.D., Columbia University

Biography

Professor Mario DiGangi specializes in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, and embodiment. He is the author of three books, The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama (Cambridge, 1997), Sexual Types: Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley (Pennsylvania, 2011), and The Winter’s Tale: Language and Writing (2022). He is the editor, with Amanda Bailey, of Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts: Politics, Ecologies, Form (Palgrave, 2017). He has edited three plays of Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale (Bedford), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Barnes&Noble) and Romeo and Juliet (Barnes&Noble).

He is currently completing a book on Shakespeare and Queer Studies and writing another book exploring the intersection of sexuality and race in English Renaissance literature.

In addition to his work on Shakespeare, he has published widely on early modern writers, including Christopher Marlowe (in Marlowe, History, and Sexuality), Ben Jonson (in Ben Jonson in Context), John Ford (in A Companion to Renaissance Drama), and Richard Barnfield (in The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield). He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, UCLA, the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), the University of Texas (Austin), the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California, Berkeley. He serves on the editorial board of the Stanford Global Shakespeare Encyclopedia and served as the President of the Shakespeare Association of America in 2016.

Prof. DiGangi has been a member of the Ph.D. Program in English since 2001 and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program since 2009. At the Graduate Center he has taught courses including "History, Theory, and Early Modern Sexualities," "Early Modern Embodiment: Race, Gender, Sexualities," "Alternative Families in Early Modern England," and “Queering the Renaissance, 2022.