Professor of English and English Program Coordinator
Phone: (239) 590-7180
E-Mail: rtotaro@fgcu.edu
Office: RH - 211

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2000
M.A. Yale University 1993
B.A. Whittier College, Magna Cum Laude, 1991

Rebecca Totaro specializes in the literature and culture of early modern England, with an emphasis on writing produced in response to regular visitations of the bubonic plague and other environmental and physiological disturbances. Recipient of the 2010 Monroe Kirk Spears Award from SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 for "Securing Sleep in Hamlet," Totaro is General Editor of Medieval &Renaissance Literary Studies, a book series with Duquesne University Press. Serving on the editorial advisory boards for English Language Notes and Early Modern Studies Journal, Totaro is author and editor of several books; among her recent articles are a study of meteorology, physiology, and the act of cursing in Shakespeare's first tetralogy (in Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England [2010]) and "Britomart's Meteorological Wound," forthcoming from Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen.

Books:

• The Plague Epic in Early Modern England: Heroic Measures, 1603-1721. Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012.
• Representing the Plague in Early Modern England. Co-edited with Ernest B. Gilman. Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2011.
• The Plague in Print: Essential Elizabethan Sources, 1558-1603. Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2010.
• Suffering in Paradise: The Bubonic Plague in English Literature from More to Milton. Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2005.

Additional information: http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/rtotaro/