DANIEL VITKUS, Associate Professor, B.A. University of Wisconsin (1983), M.A. Oxford University (1986), and Ph.D. Columbia University (1992). Vitkus specializes in cross-cultural texts, travel literature, Renaissance drama, and the cultural history of early modern England. He taught at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, before moving to Florida. He is the editor of Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England (Columbia UP, 2000) and Piracy, Slavery and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England (Columbia UP, 2001), and he is the author of a book called Turning Turk: English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean, 1570-1630 (Palgrave, 2003). He is currently co-editing the Bedford Texts and Contexts edition of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and working on a study titled Islam and the English Renaissance (contract with Routledge).

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• Adventuring Heroes in the Mediterranean: Mapping the Boundaries of Anglo-Islamic Exchange on the Early Modern Stage in a special issue of The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies on Mapping the Mediterranean, guest edited by Valeria Finucci and Grant Parker (37.1, winter, 2007).
• Poisoned Figs, or The Traveler's Religion: Travel, Trade, and Conversion in Early Modern English Culture in Re-Mapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings. Ed. Goran Stanivukovic (Palgrave Macmillan, January, 2007).
• Turks and Jews in The Jew of Malta" in Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion, ed. Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, and Garrett Sullivan, Jr. (Oxford UP, 2006).
• Turning Turk: English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean, 1570-1630, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, 244 pp.
• "'Meaner Ministers': Theatrical Labor, Mastery, and Bondage in The Tempest" in The Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare's Works: The Poems, Problem Comedies and Late Plays, ed. Jean E. Howard and Richard Dutton, Blackwell, 2003, 408-26.
• Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England, selected and edited by Daniel Vitkus; general introduction by Nabil Matar, Columbia University Press, 2001, 376 pp.
• "The 'O' in Othello: Tropes of Damnation and Nothingness" in New Critical Essays on Othello, ed. Philip C. Kolin (Routledge, 2001) 347-62.
• "The Circulation of Bodies: Slavery, Maritime Commerce, and English Captivity Narratives in the Early Modern Period" in Colonial and Postcolonial Incarceration, ed. Graeme Harper, Continuum, 2001, 23-37.
• Guest Co-Editor with Jyotsna Singh, special issue of Journal X 6.1, Autumn 2001, on "Rethinking Postcoloniality", Introduction, pp. 1-18.
• Critical edition of Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England: Selimus, Emperor of the Turks; A Christian Turned Turk; and The Renegado, Columbia University Press, 2000, 358 pp.
• "Trafficking with the Turk: English Travelers in the Ottoman Empire during the Seventeenth Century" in Travel Knowledge: European Witnesses to "Navigations, Traffiques, and Discoveries" in the Early Modern Period, ed. Jyotsna G. Singh and Ivo Kamps, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2000, 35-52.
• "Early Modern Orientalism: Representations of Islam in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Europe," Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. D. Blanks and M. Frassetto, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1999, 207-30.
• "Turning Turk in Othello: The Conversion and Damnation of the Moor" Shakespeare Quarterly 48: 2, Summer, 1997: 145-76.

AWARDS

• ASECS/Folger Institute Fellowship, March 2002.
• Folger Institute Short-Term Fellowship, July-August 2000.
• Folger Institute Short-Term Fellowship, June-July 1997.