Geoffrey Brewer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
English
Courses Taught
English 1500: The Process of Composition; English 1900: Advanced Strategies of Rhetoric and Research; English 1920: Advanced Writing for Professionals; English 2250: Conflict, Social Justice and Literature; English 2350: Faith, Doubt and Literature; English 2750: Film, Culture and Literature; English 4000: Professional Writing
Education
Ph.D. in English, Saint Louis University, 2022
M.A. in English, Saint Louis University, 2015
B.A. in English and Spanish, Westminster College, 2012
Research Interests
Early modern English literature; literary forgery; Shakespeare; William-Henry Ireland; eighteenth-century Shakespearean reception, adaptation, imitation, and forgery; hermeneutics of computational literary studies
Publications and Media Placements
Dissertation
William-Henry Ireland's Vortigern (1796) and Henry the Second (1799): A Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary. 2022. Saint Louis U, PhD dissertation.
Conference Papers
- "Visualizing Literary Forgery: W.H. Ireland's 'Lost' Shakespeare Plays." Ventriloquism in Early Modern Print: The Second Geraghty Symposium. Saint Louis University. February 2020.
- “Forgery, Counted: W.H. Ireland’s Vortigern and Henry the Second.” Faking It: Forgery and Fabrication in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture Conference. Gothenburg, Sweden. August 2019.
- “Counting Forgery.” Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (SMRS) Conference. Saint Louis, MO. June 2019.
- “’The most inartificial and bungling forgery ever attempted’: Measuring Vortigern. Saint Louis University Textual Revolutions Lecture Series. November 2018.
- “Currents in DH.” 1818 English Colloquium. Saint Louis University, October 2017.