Bio

Dr. Gregory A. Wilson is Professor of English at St. John’s University in New York City, having also taught at Boston University after receiving his Ph.D. in English from Brandeis University. He has presented papers and chaired panels at a number of national and international conferences and published many academic articles on subjects ranging from Renaissance drama to the work of James Joyce in journals such as The CEA Critic (published by Widener University) and The Upstart Crow (from Clemson University), along with chapters in essay collections on Virginia Woolf and expressions of authority in early modern England. His first book, The Problem in the Middle: Liminal Space and the Court Masque, was published by Clemson University Press in 2007, with a second edition in 2019. Dr. Wilson has designed and regularly teaches courses in Shakespeare, revenge tragedy, fantasy fiction, science fiction, and creative writing, and for fifteen years was a theater critic for one of the largest theater websites in the world, CurtainUp, before it shut down in 2020. He lives in Bridgeport, Connecticut with his family.