Lisa Myobun Freinkel
English and Comparative Literature
Statement
Interests include Renaissance literature and Shakespeare, theology, history of philosophy, psychoanalysis and literary theory. Prof. Freinkel is also a lay-ordained Zen Buddhist in the Soto School.
Publications
Publications include Reading Shakespeare's Will: The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets (Columbia UP, 2002); “Empson's Dog: Emptiness and Divinity in Timon of Athens,” Shakespeare and Religion: Early Modern and Postmodern Perspectives, eds. Ken Jackson and Arthur Marotti (Notre Dame UP, 2011); “The Shakespearean Fetish,” in Spiritual Shakespeares, ed. Ewan Fernie, (London: Routledge, 2005); “Wittenberg 1522: Martin Luther and the Whole Man,” entry on Martin Luther for The New History of German Literature, ed. David Wellbery (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2005).
