Scott Trudell
Director of Undergraduate Studies, English
Associate Professor, English
Affiliate Faculty, School of Music
trudell@umd.edu
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Research Expertise
Digital Humanities
Early Modern Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Media Studies
Musicology & Ethnomusicology
Performance Studies
Poetics
Renaissance
Textual and Digital Studies
Theatre History
Trans Studies
Scott Trudell specializes in early modern poetry, drama and music, as well as media studies and performance theory. Click here for more on his research and teaching.
Publications
“Extant / Ephemeral”
An essay on musical loss and survival with a focus on Shakespeare’s Cymbeline.
Author/Lead: Scott Trudell"An Organ for the Seraglio: Thomas Dallam’s Artificial Life"
An essay on fantasies of belonging in an Elizabethan organ-maker’s narrative of his journey to Constantinople.
Author/Lead: Scott TrudellRenaissance Studies 34, no. 5 (November 2020): 766–83, DOI: 10.1111/rest.12656.
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"Shakespeare’s Notation: Writing Sound in Much Ado About Nothing"
An essay on writing processes entwined with musical performance, in the Theories and Methodologies forum on “Aurality and Literacy."
Author/Lead: Scott TrudellPMLA 135, no. 2 (March 2020): 370–77, DOI: 10.1632/pmla.2020.135.2.370
Unwritten Poetry: Song, Performance, and Media in Early Modern England
A monograph about vocal music in the poetic and theatrical cultures of the English Renaissance.
Author/Lead: Scott TrudellWinner of the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature (Oxford University Press, 2019), 272pp., ISBN: 9780198834663.
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Introduction to "The Intermedia Restoration"
This special issue approaches English Restoration texts and art forms from the standpoint of their media—that is, the technological processes and communication conventions at stake in their circulation and production.
Author/Lead: Scott TrudellA special issue of Restoration, vol 42, no. 2 (Fall 2018): 3–11.
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"The Sounds of Pageantry"
An essay on music and noise in royal entries and Lord Mayor’s Shows.
Author/Lead: Scott TrudellCommissioned and peer reviewed for the Map of Early Modern London web project, University of Victoria, ed. Janelle Jenstad, July 2015.
"Performing Women in English Books of Ayres"
An essay on female performance in the lute song tradition.
Author/Lead: Scott TrudellIn Gender and Song in Early Modern England, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Katherine R. Larson (Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate, 2014), 15–29, ISBN: 9781472443410.
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"'Unto the World’s Ear': Wyatt’s Psalms Beyond the Court"
An essay on the varied modes of address in Thomas Wyatt’s paraphrase of the Penitential Psalms.
Author/Lead: Scott TrudellStudies in Philology 110, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 266–90, DOI: 10.1353/sip.2013.0011.
In Early Modern Theatricality, Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature, ed. Henry S. Turner (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 230–49, ISBN: 9780199641352
"The Mediation of Poesie: Ophelia’s Orphic Song"
An essay on Hamlet and media theory.
Author/Lead: Scott TrudellShakespeare Quarterly 63, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 46–76, DOI: 10.1353/shq.2012.0013