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Dr. Naomi Conn Liebler, Professor of English, received her BA from The City College of New York, and her MA and PhD from Stony Brook University. Her research interests include Shakespeare, Early Modern English Drama, Modern American and World Drama, Literary Theory, especially theories of Tragedy and of anthropological approaches to theater, Shakespeare on Film, Teaching Shakespeare, and the Literature of Age and Aging.

Dr. Liebler teaches courses in Shakespeare, American Drama, Classical Tragedy, the Art of Drama, a graduate seminar in literary research, and an undergraduate course on analytic writing with a focus on representations of ugliness in literature and art. She is the author of Shakespeare’s Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre (Routledge, 1995), has curated and edited A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2019), Early Modern Prose Fiction: The Cultural Politics of Reading (Routledge, 2007), The Female Tragic Hero in Renaissance English Drama (Palgrave, 2002), Tragedy: A Critical Reader (Longmans, 1998), and has published nearly 40 scholarly articles and essays. In 1990, Professor Liebler was named a Montclair State University Distinguished Scholar, and in 2017 was awarded the Townsend Harris Medal for Lifetime Achievement from City College of the City University of New York Alumni Association. Her recent publications include an invited essay on the experience of teaching Shakespeare in a diverse setting (How and Why We Teach Shakespeare: College Teachers and Directors Share How They Explore the Playwright’s Works with Their Students, Routledge, 2019). She is working on invited chapters for volumes on The Cultural History of Old Age (Bloomsbury) and on Shakespeare and Virtue (Edinburgh UP), and on her next monograph, a study of old age in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Research interests

Shakespeare, Early Modern English Drama, Modern American and World Drama, Literary Theory, especially theories of Tragedy and of anthropological approaches to theater, Shakespeare on Film, Teaching Shakespeare, and the Literature of Age and Aging. 

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Shakespeare, American Drama, Classical Tragedy, the Art of Drama, a graduate seminar in literary research, and an undergraduate course on analytic writing with a focus on representations of ugliness in literature and art.

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