Julian Yates is Professor of English and Material Culture Studies at University of Delaware where he teaches courses in and writes about Medieval and Renaissance British Literature and Culture, literary theory, material culture, and environmental humanities. He is the author of Error, Misuse, Failure: Object Lessons from the English Renaissance (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), which was a finalist for the Modern Language Association’s Best First Book Prize; and What’s the Worst Thing You Can Do To Shakespeare? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), co-authored with Richard Burt.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
“How to Do People with Things”: On the first 10 titles in Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons Series
The joy of the series lies in encountering the various turns to which each of their authors has been put by his or her object....
Taking Things By Surprise
The Life of Things, the Love of Things by Remo Bodei arrives at an interesting moment in the burgeoning conversation about objects, things, and matter....
