Paul Cefalu
Associate Professor
Department of English
Lafayette College
Easton, PA 18042

e-mail: cefalup@lafayette.edu
phone: 610-330-5409

Office: Pardee Hall 208
Hours: MW 4-5

Education:

Johns Hopkins University BA 1988
University of Chicago MA  1991
University of Chicago PhD 1999

Employment:

Lafayette College, Assistant Professor, 1999-2005
Lafayette College, Associate Professor, 2005

Teaching:

Spring 2008 Courses:

Eng 205: Literary Questions

VAST: Narratives of Mental Illness

Eng 303: Milton Seminar

Research and Publications:

Books

Early Modern English Literature and the Return of Theory, edited collection (in progress)

Wringing Our Hands: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and the Search for Meaning (manuscript under review)

English Renaissance Literature and Contemporary Theory: Sublime Objects of Theology (New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2007)

Moral Identity in Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)

Revisionist Shakespeare: Transitional Ideologies in Texts and Contexts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2004)

Essays and Reviews

“What’s so Funny about OCD?” (under final review by the Editorial Board of PMLA)

“Acquiring Things: Strange Cases of Compulsive Hoarding” (under final review by the Editorial Board of Critical Inquiry)

“The Doubting Disease: Religious Scrupulosity in Historical Context” (under final review at the Journal of Medical Humanities)

"Godly Fear, Sanctification, and Calvinist Theology in the Holy Sonnets and Sermons of John Donne." Studies in Philology, 100.1 (2003): 71-86

"Thomistic Metaphysics and Ethics in the Poetry and Prose of Thomas Traherne." Literature and Theology, 16.3  (2002): 248-269

"Moral Pragmatism in the Theology of Milton and his Contemporaries, or Habitus Historicized." Milton Studies, 39 (2000): 129-166.

"'Damned Custom...Habits Devil': Antidualism, Hamlet and the Early Modern Philosophy of Mind." ELH, 62.2 (2000): 399-431

"Rethinking the Discourse of Colonialism in Economic Terms: The Tempest, Captain John Smith's Virginia Narratives and the English Response to Vagrancy.” Shakespeare Studies, 28 (2000): 85-219

"The End of Absolutism: Coriolanus and the Consensual Nature of the Early Modern State." Renaissance Forum, 4.2, 2000

Review of Hamlet: New Critical Essays, edited by Arthur F. Kinney (New York and London: Routledge, 2002)  Shakespeare Quarterly 55.1 (2004)

Review of Bryan Reynolds, ed. Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Fugitive Explorations (New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2006), Shakespeare Quarterly (Summer, 2007)

Review of Angus Fletcher,Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare (Harvard University Press, 2007), forthcoming in Modern Philology

Review of Thinking with Shakespeare: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays, eds. William Poole and Richard Scholar (Legenda), forthcoming in Shakespeare Quarterly