Educated at Brown University, B.A., 1994; Columbia University, M.A., 1997; Columbia University, Ph.D., 2004.
Areas of specialty: Early Modern literature.
Adam Zucker's teaching and research center around the drama and poetry of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, with special focus on the plays of William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and their contemporaries. Other interests include: economic history; the social spaces of Tudor and Stuart London; histories of gender and sexuality; theories of taste and manners; the early modern exotic; and Restoration comedy. He is currently completing a book - Comedies of Place: Cultural Competence and Comic Form in Early Modern Drama - about the social logic of wit and taste in site-specific plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Shirley, and others.
Recent Publications:
"The Social Logic of Ben Jonson's Epicoene." Renaissance Drama 33 (2004), pp. 37-62.
"Laborless London: Comic Form and the Space of the Town in
Caroline Covent Garden." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 5.2 (Winter, 2005), pp. 94-119.
Localizing Caroline Drama: Politics and Economics of the Early Modern English Stage, 1625-1642. Co-editor with Alan B. Farmer (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2006).
Recent classes taught:
ENGL 201: Major British Writers I
ENGL 221: Shakespeare
ENGL 326: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
ENGL 491GG: The History of Comedy
ENGL 891EE: Theatrical Space and Social Relations in Early Modern England
