Professor
Department of English Language & Literature
Contact information:
Lisa Marciano, Ph.D.
134 Christendom Dr.
Front Royal, VA 22630
540.551.9181
lmarciano@christendom.edu
Education
B.A., University of Dallas
Ph.D., University of Dallas
Classes Taught
- All English core courses
- Advanced Rhetoric and Composition
- Renaissance Literature
- The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
- Shakespeare's Comedies and Romances
- Literary Criticism
- Southern Literature
Hobbies
Traveling with my family, cooking
Areas of expertise
Shakespeare, Renaissance literature
Selected Scholarship
“ ‘For him, I partly know his mind’: The Curious Union of Paulina and Camillo in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale,” LOGOS: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 26, no. 2 (Spring 2023).
“ ‘Our God is a God of Surprises’: The Mystery of God in Dante’s Writings,” Christianity and Literature 68, no. 4 (September 2019).
“Teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy: Tackling Tough Questions, Aided by Aristotle,” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 26, no. 2 (Fall 2019).
“Shakespeare’s Comedic ‘Golden Mean’,” The Ben Jonson Journal 18, no.1 (May 2011).
"The Serious Comedy of Twelfth Night: Dark Didacticism in Illyria," Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 56 (2003).
"Shakespeare's Tempest: The Awareness of Death as a Catalyst to Wisdom," Upstart Crow 20 (2000).