Nathanial B. Smith

Dr. Smith's research draws on theories of affect and gender to explore conceptions of the embodied soul in late medieval and early modern English literature. He has published essays on humoral medicine and rhetoric in Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew and Spenser's Faerie Queene, and is currently working on a monograph exploring the so-called "motions of the soul" in late medieval and early modern dream vision literature. In addition to publishing a number of essays related to the teaching of Renaissance drama and poetry, Dr. Smith co-edited a collection of essays, "Teaching Medieval Literature Off the Grid," for the journal Pedagogy. He teaches the literature of ancient, medieval, and early modern England, Europe, and the Non-Western world, with special emphasis on Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton.