Kirk Melnikoff

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Office: Fretwell 290E
Phone: 704-687-0029
Email: kbmelnik@uncc.edu
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  • 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

Selected Publications 

  • 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.
  • “From the Talbot to Duck Lane: The Early Publication History of Robert Wilson’s The Three Ladies of London,” Performance as Research in Early English Theatre Studies, 2015 <http://threeladiesoflondon.mcmaster.ca/contexts/KirkMelnikoff.htm>.
  • “The Jew of Malta as Print Commodity in 1594,” in The Jew of Malta: A Critical Reader, Ed. Robert A. Logan. Arden, 2013.  
  • “Nicholas Ling’s Republican Hamlet (1603),” in Shakespeare’s Stationers, Ed. Marta Straznicky. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
  • Robert Greene. University Wits Series. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011.
  • Writing Robert Greene: Essays on England’s First Notorious Professional Writer (with Edward Gieskes). Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. 248pp.

Reviewed: TLS (14 Nov. 2008): 9; RES 60 (2009): 488-490; Renaissance Quarterly 62 (2009): 304-6; SEL 49.1 (2009): 252-3; Marlowe Society of America Newsletter 28.2 (2009): 11-12.

  • “Case Studies in Reading 1: Reading the Texts.” Continuum Handbook to Shakespeare Studies. Eds. Andrew Hiscock and Stephen Longstaffe. London: Continuum, 2009. 71-92.
  • “‘That will I see, lead and ile follow thee’: Robert Greene and the Authority of Performance.” Writing Robert Greene: Essays on England’s First Notorious Professional Writer. Eds. Kirk Melnikoff and Edward Gieskes. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. 39-52.
  • “Recent Studies in Robert Greene (1989-2006)” (with Edward Gieskes). Writing Robert Greene: Essays on England’s First Notorious Professional Writer. Eds. Kirk Melnikoff and Edward Gieskes. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. 205-224.
  • “Thomas Hacket and the Ventures of an Elizabethan Publisher.” The Library. Seventh Series 10.3 (2009): 257-271.
  • “‘[I]ygging vaines’ and ‘riming mother wits’: Marlowe, Clowns and the Early Frameworks of Dramatic Authorship.” Early Modern Literary Studies. Special Issue 16 (October, 2007) 8.1-37.
  • “Wartime Shakespeare: The Strange Case of Bataan (1943).” Literature/Film Quarterly. 35.2 (2007): 129-139.
  • “Seasoning the Sonnet, Playing Poets: ‘The Sonnet Slam’ as Extra-Pedagogical Event” (with Jennifer Munroe). Pedagogy 7.2 (2007): 251-257.
  • Melnikoff, Kirk. “Jones’s Pen and Marlowe’s Socks: Richard Jones” Tamburlaine the Great (1590), and the Beginnings of English Dramatic Literature.” Studies in Philology 102.3 (2005).
  • —. “Shakespeare’s Sonnet 106.” A Student Companion to Shakespeare.  Greenwood Press (2004).
  • —. “Richard Jones (fl. 1564:1613).” New Dictionary of National Biography.  Oxford University Press (2004).

Recent Presentations

  • “‘Thy wit-fraught Booke’: The First Folio, Its Makings,” University of South Carolina Undergraduate/Graduate Research Symposium, April, 2016.
  • “The Early Print History of The Tragedie of Dido Queen of Carthage, or How Woodcocke, Linley, and Flasket Read their Dido,” Performing Dido, Oxford University, September, 2013.

Current Projects

  • Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture (U Toronto P, 2017)
  • Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce and the Book Trade, co-editor w/Roslyn L. Knutson (Cambridge UP, 2017)

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