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
16th and 17th century literature and culture, early drama including Shakespeare, early modern economics, religion, Marxist theory
Humanities 344
442-4080
imurakami@albany.edu
Curriculumn vitae (Word Doc)
Professor Murakami joined the faculty at the University at Albany in fall of 2006. 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 reveals the genre's significant contribution to the formation of fractious, temporary early modern public spheres.
Recent 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
"'Mak[ing] Room': Morality Play Convention and the Adjudicating Public Sphere," Medieval & Renaissance Drama Society, MLA, San Francisco, California, December 29, 2008.
“Titus loosely”, Editing in Action, Renaissance Drama in Action, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November, 2006.
“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
“Shakespeare and Performance,” The Folger Institute, Workshop, Washington D.C.,7-8 February, 2003
Recent Courses
T-English 226, Imagining Renaissance, Honors College (Spring 2009)
English 210, Author, Code, Context, Reader, an Introduction to English Studies (Spring 2008)
English 680, Renaissance Scandal of Excess (Spring 2008)
English 411, A/Moral Play: Transformations in Moral Drama (Fall 2008)
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