Pacific University Theatre's fall production, Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson, runs Oct. 18-21 on the Forest Grove Campus.
Elizabeth E. Tavares, PhD
Assistant Professor
+1 (503) 352-2801
UC Box
A142
Bates House 10
Areas I Teach
Office Hours Spring 2018: MW 1:00 - 2:00PM, and by appointment.
Website: www.elizabethetavares.com
Elizabeth E. Tavares (pronouns: she/her) is assistant professor of Arts and Humanities at Pacific University, where she teaches courses in British literature, drama, first-year compositions, and upper-level research writing. Tavares currently serves as Scholar-in-Residence with the Original Practice Shakespeare Festival, senior drama editor for the literary magazine, Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads, and editor for the International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities.
Specializing in early English drama, her research foci include playing companies, theater history, and Shakespeare in performance. This research has won prizes from the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society and the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, and has been supported by grants from the Mellon Foundation, Harvard University, and McGill University. Currently at work on a book project, "Playing the Stock Market: The Repertory System before Shakespeare," Tavares’ scholarship and reviews have appeared in or are forthcoming from Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, and The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, among others. She has also contributed to numerous theater blogs, Digital Humanities projects, and edited collections in Television Studies, as well as regularly gives lectures at museums and other public venues in the Portland area.
Initiatives
- The Problem Play Project (Bag&Baggage Productions)
- Lit in the City: Wordstock Weekend (English Club, 2017)
- Shakespeare in the Square (Elliott Grant, 2017)
- Celebrating 400: Oregon Shakespeare Festival Weekend (Elliott Grant, 2016)
- Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, Alpha Chi Omega chapter
Editorial Commitments
- Drama Editor, Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads
- Humanities Editor, International Journal of Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities (IJURCA)
- Digital Editor, H-Albion: The H-Net Discussion Network for British & Irish History
Courses
| ENGL 227 | World Literature and Magical Realisms |
| ENGL 232 | In Albion’s Wake; or, British Literature (Survey) |
| ENGL 323 | Shakespeare, Text, Performance |
| ENGL 337 | Vikings, Vulgates, and the Making of Medieval English Literature (Survey) |
| ENGL 338 | Reform, Rebirth, and Rediscovery in English Renaissance Literature (Survey) |
| ENGL 340 | Estrangéd Woods: Theatre and the Environment (Studies in Drama) |
| ENGW 201 | Writing and Research (First-Year Composition) |
| ENGW 305 | Research Methods in English (Junior Seminar) |
| HUM 100 | #OthelloSyllabus: Cyprus, Ferguson, Forest Grove (First-Year Seminar) |
| HUM 100 | Word Limits: The Life and Times of the Essay (First-Year Seminar) |
Headlines
Only as the Day Is Long (W.W. Norton, 2019) represents a brilliant, daring body of work from one of our boldest and most accomplished contemporary poets, MFA in Writing faculty member Dorianne Laux.
Dr. Margolis received her second career Drammy Award for Pericles Wet, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre.