Biography
Education
PhD, Washington University in St. Louis, 2020
Interests and Specializations
Early modern literature, Shakespeare, memory studies, ecocriticism, postcolonialism, film
About
Daniel Normandin joined the English faculty in 2022 after teaching at George Mason University for two years as a postdoctoral fellow. At Marshall, he teaches courses on Shakespeare, representations of the environment in literature and film, introductory literary analysis, and composition. Although English Renaissance literature is his specialty, he enjoys teaching a wide range of media and genres: ancient Roman texts, folk tales, modern short stories, poetry of all eras, science fiction novels, horror films, and more.
His first book project, Planting the Past: Colonial Memory in Early Modern England, explores the intersection of the English historical and colonial imaginations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book shows how early modern writers responded to colonization in Ireland and the Americas by representing England’s own ancient past as an occupied territory. Dr. Normandin’s work has appeared in Modern Philology, Early Modern Literary Studies, and the essay collection Memory and Affect in Shakespeare’s England (Cambridge University Press).