Richard Burt
Professor
Richard Burt received his BA and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1977 and 1984, respectively. After holding a post-doctoral fellowship at the Medieval and Renaissance Center at Arizona State from 1984–86, Burt taught in the English Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst from 1986–2003. His dissertation on Shakespeare’s comic form, gender, and scapegoating was directed by Professor Stephen Greenblatt, now at Harvard University.
Burt is the author of over forty articles and book chapters on topics including Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, literary theory, film adaptation, the Middle Ages in film and media, the erotics of pedagogy, telepolitics, cinematic paratexts, and censorship. He is the author of three books: Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; rev. paperback 2010); Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture (St. Martin’s, 1998; rev. paperback, 1999); and Licensed by Authority: Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship (Cornell UP 1993). He is also the editor of Shakespeares After Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture (Greenwood Press, 2006); Shakespeare After Mass Media (Palgrave, 2002); and The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere (UMinn, 1994). Burt is the co-editor of Enclosure Acts: Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England (Cornell UP, 1994), Shakespeare the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video (Routledge, 1997) and Shakespeare the Movie, II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video, and DVD (Routledge, 2003).
Burt held a Fulbright scholarship in Berlin, Germany from 1995–96, and taught there at the Free University and the Humboldt University. he is currently writing a book entitled Shelf Life and co-writing with Julian Yaes a book entitled What’s the Worst Thing You Can Do to Shakespeare? Cruxes and Crossroads.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4314
- voice: (352) 294-2824
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <burt@english.ufl.edu>