Stephanie Shirilan

Stephanie Shirilan joined the English department at Syracuse in 2009 after completing her doctoral studies at Brandeis University. She earned previous degrees at the University of British Columbia and the Liberal Arts College of Concordia University in Montreal – a trajectory that maps her intersecting interests in cultural critique and canonicity. Shirilan is the author of Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy (Ashgate, 2015/Routledge, 2016) and has written articles on scholarly melancholy, the historiography of prose style, early modern skin, and the mobility of wonder in early modern travel literature. With Kathleen Long (Cornell), She is co-director of the CNY Humanities Corridor Working Group on The History of Scientific Norms and Ideas of the Normal. Check for updates on events. She is an active member of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program and is on the faculty of Jewish Studies, for which she taught a new course in 2019 on Jews and Judaism in the Early Modern Christian Imagination.