• CRITICAL DISABILITY THEORY
• ENGLISH LITERATURE
• GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES
• HISTORY--GENDER
• LITERATURE, CRITICAL THEORY AND LITERARY CRITICISM
• LITERATURE, ENGLISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
• QUEER THEORY
• SEXUALITY
• SHAKESPEARE
• THEATRE HISTORY, FEMINISM AND THEATRE, DRAMATURGY, DRAMATIC CRITICISM, THEATRE AND GENDER

Ari Friedlander, Associate Professor of English, received his Ph.D. in Language and Literature from the Univ. of Michigan in 2011. His first monograph, Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics (Oxford University Press, 2022) was shortlisted for the Shakespeare's Globe Book Award from Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London, as well as the First Book Award by the Shakespeare Association of America. He is also co-editor of "Desiring History and Historicizing Desire," a special issue of JEMCS: Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (2016). Other publications on sexuality, gender, and disability have appeared or are forthcoming in SEL: Studies in English Literature, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment, and Logomotives: Words that Change the Early Modern World (Edinburgh University Press). He has held research fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Henry E. Huntington Library, and the Volkswagen Foundation. His current book project is entitled Inventing Impotence: Sex, Labor, and Disability in Early Modern England.