Research

Current Research Projects

My current project is about how Philip Sidney developed the righteous form of anger through his romance, New Arcadia. I argue that rather than supporting a complete subdual of anger, Sidney saw the political potentiality of expressing the emotion.
I am also interested in gender politics around the emotion of anger especially in the early modern writing convention of querelle de femmes as well as prose romance such as Mary Wroth's Urania.
I am currently working on how Arthur Miller developed his own “human rights tragedy” in order to effectively avoid the ethical dilemma of representing atrocities. In particular, I focus on how he uses what Raymond Williams conceptualizes as “modern tragedy" in developing his own dramatic form of human rights literature such as Incident at Vichy.
In 2024, I received a "Young Researcher Fund" from the National Research Foundation of Korea: South Korean College Students’ Perceptions of Digital Assignments in a Shakespeare Class. This project aims to suggest six modules revolving around digital assignments and to provide pedagogical insight in terms of how to effectively employ various digital tools and resources in a Shakespeare class. I am currently turning my teaching experience into a research article by focusing on students' perceptions.

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Lady Mary Wroth, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Arthur Miller, Incident at Vichy, University of Minnesota Theatre Arts & Dance's photo, licensed as CC BY-NC 2.0.

Publications

Park, E, “Angry Style: Emotion and Writing in Jane Anger Her Protection for Women.” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, forthcoming.
Park, E. “Knightly Accommodations: Governing Passions in The Faerie Queene.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, vol. 35, no. 1, 2025. pp. 27-44.
Park, E., Kim, Y., and Yoon, J. “Bibliometrics Analysis of Korean Scholarly Articles on Shakespeare.” Journal of D-Culture Archives, vol. 8, no. 1, 2025. pp. 111-134. [published in Korean: “국내 학술지의 계량서지학적 분석을 통한 셰익스피어 연구 동향 분석”]
Park, E. “A Tragedy of Class: Variations on Shakespearean Themes in Gary Owen’s Romeo and Julie.” Shakespeare Review, vol. 60, no. 3, 2024. pp. 539-65. [published in Korean: “계급의 비극: 게리 오웬의 로미오와 줄리 속 셰익스피어 변주”]
Park, E, “‘Soft, here follows prose’: Feelings that Travel between Prose and Verse in Twelfth Night.” Shakespeare Review, vol. 60, no. 2, 2024. pp. 437-459.
Park, E, “The Production of the Tragic: Locating Tragedy in Romeo and Juliet.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, 2024. pp. 27-47.
Park, E, “Early Modern and Modern Winter’s Tales: Intertextual Images of Autolycus from Shakespeare to Jean Rhys.” Studies in English Language & Literature, vol. 49, no.4, 2023. pp. 47-66.
Park, E. “Cultural Analysis: Establishing Self-authorship in Research Writing Projects.” The Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 21, vol. 14, no. 1, 2023. pp. 3197-3211.
Park, E. “Hamlet as a Reflexive Revenge Tragedy.” Studies in English Language & Literature, vol. 48, no.1, 2022. pp. 47-64.
Park, E. “‘[M]y heart is satisfied’: Revenge, Justice, and Satisfaction in The Spanish Tragedy.” In Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture, edited by Cora Fox, Bradly J. Irish, and Cassie M. Miura, Manchester University Press. 2021.
Park, E. “A Choleric Lear: Humoralism and Malleable Identity in King Lear.” Studies in English Language & Literature, vol. 47, no.3, 2021. pp. 39-54.
Park, E. “Elizabeth Cary’s Revenge Tragedy.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, 2021, pp. 29-48
Park, E. “‘[N]umberless wonders’: The Oscillation between Wonder and Sympathy in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko.” The New Korean Journal of English Language and Literature, vol. 62, no.3, 2020. pp. 57-76.
Park, E. “Anger and Revenge in Titus Andronicus.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, vol. 30, no.1, 2020. pp. 25-46.
Park E. “Violence and Commitment in Edward Bond’s Lear.” The Journal of Modern British and American Drama, vol. 33, no.1, 2020, pp. 291-317.
Park, E. “Sympathy for Old Age in King Lear.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, vol. 34, no. 3, 2019, pp. 193-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2019.1683709.

Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture, retrieved from the Manchester University Press.

Lafayette Photo, London, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Hubert-François Gravelot (dessin) & Gerard Van der Gucht (sculpt.), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

George Frederick Bensell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons