Matthew Zarnowiecki is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literature at Touro University’s Lander College for Women and Lander College for Men, New York. His research interests are in early modern literary studies, Shakespeare, print and manuscript history, and lyric poetry and song. His monograph, Fair Copies: Reproducing the English Lyric from Tottel to Shakespeare (University of Toronto Press, 2014) examines the production and reproduction of poetry in printed collections. His articles have appeared in Critical Survey, Spenser Studies, The Sidney Journal, and EMLS. Recent work on polyphonic songbooks is in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts. At Touro, he teaches English electives (including Shakespeare, Milton, Literary Theory, Restoration and 18th-c. literature, and Chaucer), core literature classes (including Renaissance Literature, Modern European Literature, and Ancient Greek and Roman Literature), and composition classes (including Intro to Composition, Composition I, and Composition II).

Education

• PhD and MA, Columbia University
• BA, Cornell University

Publications

• Zarnowiecki, M., & Stenner, R. (2019). Review: The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature. Review of English Studies, 70(297), 959–961. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgz056
• Zarnowiecki, M. (2019). Responses to Responses to Shakespeare’s Sonnets: More Sonnets. In R. Conkie & S. Maisano (Eds.), Shakespeare and Creative Criticism. Berghahn Books.
• Zarnowiecki, M. (2016). Responses to responses to Shakespeare’s sonnets: More sonnets. Critical Survey, 28(2) 10-26.
• Zarnowiecki, M. (2014). Fair copies: reproducing the English lyric from Tottel to Shakespeare. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.

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