Todd Pettigrew is Associate Professor of English at Cape Breton University in Sydney, Nova Scotia Canada.

He was educated at the University of Western Ontario, McMaster University and the University of Waterloo, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1998. For two years he worked in the publishing business but returned to scholarship -- and came to Cape Breton -- in 2000.

His research focuses on the discourses of early science in England and the response in the drama of the period, particularly in the plays of Shakespeare and Marlowe. He has published articles in several journals and is the author of Shakespeare and the Practice of Physic, forthcoming from the University of Delaware Press (see more below).

Along with an introductory English course, he teaches Shakespeare, non-Shakespearean Renaissance Drama, Survey of Drama, Popular Culture, and courses on special topics.

Selected Recent Publications

Shakespeare and the Practice of Physic. Forthcoming from University of Delaware Press.

"'Profitable Unto the Vulgar': The Case and Cases of John Cotta's Short Discoverie," in Textual Healing: Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Medicine. Ed. E. L. Furdell. Brill, 2005, 257-137.

“Faustus Forever: Marlowe, Bruno, and Infinity.” Comparative Critical Studies 2.2 (2005), 67-91.

“Sex, Sin, and Scarring: Syphilis in John Redford's Wit and Science.” in Tudor Drama Before Shakespeare 1485-1590: New Directions for Research, Criticism and Pedagogy. Ed. Lloyd Edward Kermode and Jason Scott-Warren. Palgrave, 2004. 213-227.

 

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