Ineke Murakami
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
M.A. English Literature, University of Notre Dame
M.A. Creative Writing, University of Illinois at Chicago
Renaissance British literature and culture, early drama, Shakespeare, early modern economics, religion, Marxist theoryHumanities 344
442-4080
imurakami@albany.edu
Curriculumn Vitae (PDF)
Professor Murakami joined the faculty at the University at Albany in fall of 2006. Her work to date explores intersections between medieval and early modern drama, economics, and political theology. Her current project reassesses the English morality play as a medium of political analysis and commentary that conceals its critical function through literary and performance conventions. She argues that moral drama consistently wrestled with issues of social justice, labor, and commercialism—a focus that identifies the morality play’s presence on the London stage not as a form of atavism, but as the florescence of a vigorous mainline tradition.
Recent and Forthcoming Publications
“Wager’s Drama of Convention, Class and State Constitution” Studies in English Literature, spring 2007
“The ‘bond and privilege of nature’ in Coriolanus,” Religion & Literature, spring 2007
Select Academic Presentations and Workshops
“Titus loosely”, Editing in Action, Renaissance Drama in Action, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November, 2006.
“‘Of Finer Mold then Common Men’: Marlowe’s Passio of Barabas,” 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May, 2005.
“Dramatizing the Banal: Evil in Mankind,”39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 9 May, 2004
“‘Woman Lyke a Beger,’: Gender and Class in the Chronicle Moralities,” Shakespeare Association of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, 9 April, 2004
“Judgement ‘to the value of his place’: Market and Discretion in the Citizen of Bartholomew Fair,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Irvine, California, 24 October, 2003
“Mad Men and Edge-tools: Commodification of Learning and the Construction of Bourgeois Professionalism.” Shakespeare Association of America, Victoria, Canada, 11 April, 2003
“Shakespeare and Performance,” The Folger Institute, Workshop, Washington D.C.,7-8 February, 2003
Recent Courses
English 581, Other Speaking: Allegory in Early English Texts (Spring 2007).
English 210, Author, Code, Context, Reader, an Introduction to English Studies (Spring 2007).
English 411, A/Moral Play: Transformations in Moral Drama (Fall 2006).
English 440A, Playing: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (Spring 2005)
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