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James Bromley

Biography

I research and teach courses on Shakespeare, early modern literature, women writers, the history of sexuality, and queer theory.

Education

• Ph.D, Loyola University Chicago
• M.A, Loyola University Chicago
• B.A, Aquinas College

Research and Teaching Interests

• Shakespeare
• Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature
• Women Writers
• History of sexuality
• Queer theory

Courses Taught

• ENG 134 - Introduction to Shakespeare
• ENG/WGS 232 - Women Writers
• ENG 328 - Sixteenth-Century English Literature
• ENG 331 - Seventeenth-Century English Literature
• ENG 372/373 - Plays of Shakespeare
• ENG 374 - English Renaissance Drama
• ENG/WGS 435/535 - Queer Theory
• ENG 603 - Theories and Their Histories
• Special topics courses at the graduate and undergraduate level, such as "Renaissance Queer Sexualities" and "London on the Early Modern Stage"

Selected Publications

• "Society and Sexuality." Routledge Companion to Renaissance Literature. Ed. Catherine Bates. Routledge. (Forthcoming)
• "Sidney and Clothes," Oxford Handbook of Philip Sidney. Ed. Catherine Bates. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2024. 752-765.
• . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
• "Love and Friendship." A Handbook of English Renaissance Studies. Ed. John Lee. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. 29-42.
• "Cruisy Historicism: Sartorial Extravagance and Public Sexual Culture in Ben Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 16.2 (2016): 21-58.
• "'Quilted with Mighty Words to Lean Purpose': Clothing and Queer Style in The Roaring Girl." Renaissance Drama 43.2 (2015): 143-172.
• . Ed. James M. Bromley and Will Stockton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
• "Rimming the Renaissance," in . 171-194.
• . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
• "Social Relations and Masochistic Sexual Practice in The Nice Valour," Modern Philology 107.4 (2010): 556-587. Winner of the 2011 Martin Stevens Award for Best New Essay in Early Drama Studies from the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society.
• "'Let It Suffise’: Sexual Acts and Narrative Structure in Hero and Leander." Queer Renaissance Historiography: The Backward Gaze. Ed. Stephen Guy-Bray, Vin Nardizzi, and Will Stockton. Burlington: Asghate, 2009. 67-84.
• "'The Onely Way to Be Mad, Is to Bee Constant': Defending Heterosexual Non-monogamy in John Lyly’s Love's Metamorphosis." Studies in Philology 106.4 (2009): 420-440.
• "Intimacy and the Body in Seventeenth–Century Religious Devotion." Early Modern Literary Studies 11.1 (May 2005). 

Grants and Awards

• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2017-2018
• Solmsen Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, 2014-2015
• Martin Stevens Award for the Best New Essay in Early Drama Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society, 2011

Work in Progress

Professor Bromley is currently working on a book on Philip Sidney and queer sexualities and a book on the Roman poet Ovid in early modern literature