Kirk Melnikoff

Education

• Ph.D., Boston University
• M.A., Boston University
• B.A., Lehigh University

Areas of Interest

• Elizabethan Literature
• History of the Book
• Performance History
• Shakespeare on Film

Recent Publications 

• Contributing Editor, James IV, Routledge Anthology of Non-Shakespearean Drama, Ed. Jeremy Lopez. Routledge, 2020, 508-74.
• “Isabella Whitney amongst the Stalls of Richard Jones.” Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England. Ed. Valerie Wayne. Arden, 2020, 145-61.
• Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture. University of Toronto Press, 2018.
• Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce and the Book Trade (with Roslyn L. Knutson). Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• “Shakespeare’s Urban Comedies and the Lure of True Crime and Satire.” The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy. Ed. Heather Hirchfeld. Oxford University Press, 2018.
• Edward II: A Critical Guide. Arden, 2017.

Recent Presentations

• “‘[H]e that likes not this…’: Elizabethan Publishing, Browsing, and the Book,” “Constructions of Authorship in Print,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, March 2019.

Current Projects

• “Publishing,” The Oxford Handbook to the History of the Book in Early Modern England. Ed. Adam Smyth. Oxford University Press, 2021.
• Contributing Editor, Edward II, Christopher Marlowe Collected Works. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Courses Taught

• ENGL 3050: Shakespeare in Performance
• ENGL 3100: Approaches to Literature
• ENGL 3301: British Literature Survey I
• ENGL 4116: Early Shakespeare
• ENGL 4117: Late Shakespeare
• ENGL 4131: Early English Drama
• ENGL 4750: Monarchal Shakespeare
• ENGL 6111: Shakespeare’s Comedies and Histories
• ENGL 6680: Shakespeare on Film
• ENGL 6680: Marlowe on the Stage and Page