Associate Professor of English
Office
Moreland 322
Phone
541-737-1652
Email
rbarbour@oregonstate.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 1990
B.A. Stanford University 1970
Areas of specialization
Renaissance, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Drama, Theater History, Cultural Studies,
Civic Pageantry, Renaissance Orientalism, the London East India Company,
Travel Writing, Classical Mythology
Selected publications
"A Multinational Corporation: Foreign Labor in the London East India Company," in Jyotsna Singh, ed., A Companion to the Global Renaissance (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming 2009), 32p.
Journals of the East India Company's Third Voyage, 1607-10: A Writing and Performing Community (New York: Palgrave, Forthcoming)
"The East India Company Journal of Anthony Marlowe, 1607-08" Huntington Library Quarterly 71:2 (2008), 255-301.
Before Orientalism. London's theatre of the East, 1576-1626 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003)
"Power and Distant Display: Early English 'Ambassadors' in Moghul India," Huntington
Library Quarterly 61: 3 & 4 (2000), 343-368.
"'There Is Our Commission': Writing and Authority in Measure for
Measure and the London East India Company," Journal of English
and Germanic Philology (April 2000), 194-214.
"Britain and the Great Beyond: The Masque of Blackness at Whitehall,"
in John Gillies and Virginia Mason Vaughan, eds., Playing the Globe.
Genre and Geography in English Renaissance Drama (Madison & London:
Fairleigh Dickinson, 1998), 129-153.
"Jonson and the Motives of Print," Criticism 40:4 (Fall
1998): 499-528.
"'When I Acted Young Antinous': Boy-Actors and the Erotics of Jonsonian
Theater," PMLA (October 1995): 1006-22.
"The Elizabethan Jonson in Print," Criticism (Summer 1992):
317-326