Dean's Assistant Professor of Early Modern Studies, English Department
(Ph.D. (History), Cornell University, 1997)
tel.: (607) 777-5251
fax.: (607) 777-2408
e-mail: walkling@binghamton.edu
Areas of Interest
Renaissance and Restoration England, including literature, visual culture, music, and performativity.
Current Projects
Book: Masque and Opera in Restoration England
Edited volume: John Blow's Venus and Adonis: Sources and Studies
Book/score: New edition of Matthew Locke/Christopher Gibbons/ James Shirley, Cupid and Death (commissioned for Musica Britannica series; to be co-edited with Robert Thompson)
Books and Recent Articles
"The Problem of 'Rondolesette Halle' in The Awntyrs of Arthure" (Studies in Philology)
"Masque and Politics at the Restoration Court: John Crowne's Calisto" (Early Music)
"Performance and Political Allegory in Restoration England: What to Interpret and When" (Performing the Music of Henry Purcell, ed. M. Burden)
"Political Allegory in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas" (Music and Letters)
"Politics and the Restoration Masque: The Case of Dido and Aeneas" (Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration: Literature, Drama, History, ed. G. MacLean)
Recent Courses Taught
Literature and the English Civil War
Restoration Literature
Shakespeare and Shakespearean Adaptation
Music and Text in Seventeenth-Century England
Literature and Politics in England, 1580-1730
Early Modern London: Architecture, Sound, and Space
Sex, Money, and Kingship on the English Stage: Restoration Drama, 1660-1710
English Literature in the Restoration and Early 18th Century: The "Augustan" Age
