Assistant Professor Renaissance Literature

Peter Kanelos received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2002 and taught at Stanford as a postdoctoral fellow from 2002-3. He is an editor of the New Variorum edition of Twelfth Night and has published articles on Shakespeare, Montaigne and Vasari. Dr. Kanelos has lectured nationally and internationally on Shakespearean drama, and was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 2004 for work at the Blackfriars Theater in Virginia and the Globe Theater in London. He teaches in the English department at the University of San Diego and in the USD/Old Globe Master of Fine Arts in Acting program.

Selected Publications:

Editor.  Much Ado About Nothing.  The New Kittredge Shakespeare.  (Forthcoming).

Associate Editor.  Twelfth Night: The New Variorum Shakespeare.  New York: Modern Language Association (Forthcoming).

 “Hamlet vs. Quinnopolis vs. Hamlet.”  Borrowers & Lenders: The Journal of Shakespearean Appropriation.  Vol. 2, No.1 Spring/Summer 2006.

“Fama and Fortuna: Giorgio Vasari’s Michelangelo.”  Quidditas: The Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 25 (2006): 71-96.

“The Passionate Pilgrim.”  The Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare.  Four volumes. Edited by Joseph Rosenblum.  Greenwood Press, 2005: 1323-1329.

“Hamlet and Art of Memory.”   Hamlet Studies 25 (2003): 67-80.

“Montaigne and the Grotto of Memory.”  Proteus Fall (2002): 12-18.