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Ray Bossert III
Education
Ph.D. English Language and Literature, University of Maryland, December 2006
M.A. English Language and Literature, University of Maryland, May 2001
B.A. English Literature, La Salle University, May 1999
Research Interests
Dr. Bossert’s primary research interests lie in 16th and 17th-century British Literature. He is working on his manuscript, “The Golden Chain: Royal Slavery, Sovereignty and Servitude in Early Modern English Literature, 1550-1688.” His secondary interests include literary theory, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the graphic novel.
Grants & Awards
Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship 2006
James A. Robinson Undergraduate Teaching Award 2005
Center for Teaching Excellence, Office of Undergraduate 2005 Studies, and Graduate School at the University of Maryland Certificate for Distinguished Teaching Assistants
Mythopoeic Society Travel Grant 2004
Kinnaird Essay Prize, Best Master’s Seminar Paper: 2001 “‘This is the very coinage of thy brain’: Hamlet, Luther, and Purgatory.”
Kinnaird Essay Prize, Best Master’s Seminar Paper 2000
“Project R.O.O.M. (Reflections on/of Manuscripts): The digitization of Renaissance Manuscripts on the Web”
Two-Year University Fellowship for Graduate Students 1999
Two-Year Enhancement Grant for Renaissance Studies 1999
Publications
“Slavery and Anti-Republicanism in Sir Ralph Freeman’s Imperiale, a tragedy.” June 2010. Early Theatre. Forthcoming.
“‘Surely You Don’t Disbelieve’: Tolkien, Pius X, and Anti-Modernism.”25.1-2 (2006). Mythlore, the Journal of the Mythopoeic Society.
Presentations
“Serpent No Devil: Seventeenth-Century Semiotics and the Nature of Satan.” The Devil in Society in the Pre-Modern World. Toronto, ON. October 2008
“Radigund, the Maligned Queen: An Analysis of Slavery and Tyranny in Book V of Spenser’s Fairie Queene.” Medieval Conference 43rd International Congress for Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Michigan. May 2008.
“To Pity and to Shame: Royal Slavery in The Rape of Lucrece.” “Womanhood Denies My Tongue”: Lucrece Revisited Seminar, Shakespeare Association of America, Dallas Texas. March 2008.
“Oroonoko: the Failure to Form a Nation.” Graduate Student Colloquium. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. March 2005.
“‘I will resist such entertainment’: Brewing The Tempest from Commedia dell’Arte.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS). Orlando, FL. November 2004.
“‘Surely You Don’t Disbelieve’: Tolkien, Pius X, and Anti-Modernism.” Mythcon XXV, Conference of the Mythopoeic Society. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. June 2004.
“‘This is the very coinage of thy brain’: Hamlet, Luther, and Purgatory.” American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). Philadelphia, PA. November 2002.
Course Information
FYS 172 Literature of Slavery from Plautus to Twain
ENG 202 Studies in Renaissance Literature
ENG 201 Studies in Medieval Literature
ENG 163 Re-writing Shakespeare
ENG 315 Literary Theory
ENG 463 Textual Studies: Editing Renaissance Sonnets
