Dr. Samantha Dressel
Assistant Professor, Instructional Faculty
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Department of English
Office Location:
Smith Hall 8F
Office Hours: By appointment, https://goo.gl/6tpWro
Email: sdressel@chapman.edu
- Education:
- Colgate University, Bachelor of Arts
University of Rochester, Master of Arts
University of Rochester, Ph.D.
Biography
Samantha Dressel teaches a variety of literature and writing courses including Lit I: Antiquity to 1400, Writing About Diverse Cultures, and FFC: Sweet, Sweet Vengeance. Her scholarly interest is in English Renaissance revenge tragedy. She is currently working on her first monograph, Vocabularies of Violence, which explores the visual and verbal communication of trauma in those gory texts. She is particularly interested in violence used to rhetorical effect and how its implementation relates to gender. Along with early literature, she also loves teaching post-colonial science fiction and anything involving revenge. Dr. Dressel is currently the treasurer for RMMRA, the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association.
Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
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“‘This Stroke for the Most Wronged of Women’: Sexual Coercion and Revenge Violence in The Maid’s Tragedy.” Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England, edited by Samantha Dressel and Matthew Carter, Routledge, 2023, 140-154.
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Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England, eds. Samantha Dressel and Matthew Carter. London, Routledge, 2023.
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Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England, edited by Samantha Dressel and Matthew Carter. Routledge, 2023.
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Religions in Ritual, Spectacle, and Drama in the Medieval & Early Modern World, Religions Special Edition. Edited by Kristin Bezio and Samantha Dressel, 2023-2024.
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Samantha Dressel, Shakespeare’s Law. By MARK FORTIER, Shakespeare Quarterly, Volume 73, Issue 3-4, Fall-Winter 2022, Pages 341–342, https://doi.org/10.1093/sq/quac067
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Dressel, Samantha. "Post-truth and pre-truth: how rhetoric shapes reality in Boyle’s Certain Physiological Essays , Shakespeare’s Othello, and the language of Donald Trump." in William Shakespeare and 21st-Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership: Bard Bites, Edward Elgar, 2021, pp. 109-130
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Dressel, Samantha. "'Were I but a man as others are': Secrecy and Gender on the Renaissance Stage", Early Modern Literary Studies 21.2 (2020).