Keith Botelho
Kennesaw State University, English, Faculty Member
- Keith M. Botelho, Professor of English at Kennesaw State University, attended Saint Anselm College (B.A. 1996) and th... moreKeith M. Botelho, Professor of English at Kennesaw State University, attended Saint Anselm College (B.A. 1996) and the University of New Hampshire (M.A. 2001; Ph.D. 2006). His first book, Renaissance Earwitnesses: Rumor and Early Modern Masculinity, was published in 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan. Additionally, he has published articles in such journals as Studies in English Literature, Early Modern Culture, Cahiers Elisabethains, and Comparative Drama, and his work has also appeared in scholarly collections including Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts, Object Oriented Environs, Ground-Work: English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science, and MLA Approaches to Teaching Aphra Behn's Oroonoko. He is also a co-editor of a two-volume collection of essays on insects in the early modern world, entitled Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance, published in the Animalibus series from Penn State University Press (2023).edit
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Renaissance Earwitnesses examines masculinity on the early modern stage through sensory culture. In his reading of plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Cary, and Jonson, Keith M. Botelho argues that earwitnessing, or judicious listening, is a... more
Renaissance Earwitnesses examines masculinity on the early modern stage through sensory culture. In his reading of plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Cary, and Jonson, Keith M. Botelho argues that earwitnessing, or judicious listening, is a vehicle early modern dramatists used to rethink constructions of male informational authority. Drawing on sound and gender studies and providing close analysis of the circulation of rumor both on and off the stage, Botelho reveals male anxieties to be self-generated, emerging not from female gossip, but from male rumormongering. By rethinking the gendered dimensions to the flow of information, Botelho makes an important contribution to early modern scholarship.
