Contact Information

  • Title: Assistant Professor
  • Phone: 215.489.4867
  • Email: michael.stamps@yahoo.com
  • Office Hours:

    Fall 2012

    Monday 1:40 - 2:55 p.m.
    Tuesday 12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
    Wednesday 1:40 - 2:55 p.m.
    Thursday 12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
    Friday 12:15 - 1:30 p.m.

    And by appointment

Biography

Education

Ph.D. in English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2004)
M.A. in English, San José State University (1996)
B.A. in English, San José State University (1993)

Publications

  • Chapter. “Mark Twain, Walt Disney, and the Invention of American Childhood.” Walt Disney and His Narratives: From Reader to Storyteller. Eds. Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark I. West. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, n.d. Forthcoming.
  • Reference. Ben Jonson’s Volpone: A Critical Variorum Edition. Currently under review by a major university press.
  • Article. “Ben Jonson’s Early Editors: Peter Whalley and William Gifford,” The Ben Jonson Journal 13 (2006): 1–28.
  • Book Review. “Lesley Mickel’s Ben Jonson’s Antimasques: A History of Growth and Decline (Ashgate, 1999),” Sixteenth Century Studies Journal 31.4 (2000): 1092–94.

Conferences and Presentations

  • Presenter. “The Rise of the Post-Feminist Horror Film: Scream (1996) and Jennifer’s Body (2009).” Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association. Pittsburgh, PA. Nov. 2012.
  • Presenter. “Mark Twain, Walt Disney, and the Invention of American Childhood.” National Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association. Boston, MA. April 13, 2012.
  • Presenter. “Killer Queens: The Male Transvestite as Film Villain in Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs.” Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association. Philadelphia, PA. Nov. 5, 2011.
  • Attendee. Mid-Atlantic Writing Center Association Conference. West Chester University. West Chester, PA. April 16, 2011.
  • Panelist. “Building from Within: Sequencing Assignments, Courses, and Curricula to Foster Learning Outcomes.” Fellow Panelists: Ron De Peter, Brian Lutz, Wilbert Turner, Jr. Faculty of the Future Conference. Bucks Community College. Newtown, PA. June 3, 2011.
  • Presenter. “The Unexamined Sources of Jonson’s Volpone.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Toronto, OT. Oct., 30, 2004.
  • Presenter. “The Volpone Variorum.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. Nov. 1, 2003.
  • Presenter. “Editions and Adaptations: Ben Jonson’s Volpone in the Eighteenth Century.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. San Antonio, TX. Oct. 24, 2002.
  • Presenter. “Drama and Dogma: The Brome Abraham and Isaac and the Typological Theatre of Medieval England.” Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association Conference. Las Vegas, NV. May 25, 2002.
  • Presenter. “For an age: The Early Editors of The Works of Ben Jonson.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Denver, CO. Oct. 26, 2001.
  • Presenter. “Mourning Becomes Olivia: The Unpatriarched Maid of Twelfth Night and the Case of Manningham’s ‘Lady widdowe.’” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Cleveland, OH. Nov. 4, 2000.