Paul R. Wright, pH.D.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

Co-director, honors program

CABRINI COLLEGE

 

TRAINING

Name: Paul R. Wright

Education: Ph.D., Comparative Literature (Princeton University); B.A., English (Northwestern University)

Specialization: English and Italian Renaissance, including: Machiavelli; Milton; The Humanist Tradition

Secondary Fields: The Epic; Critical Theory; The Frankfurt School; Historiography; Media Studies

Previous Teaching Experience: Princeton University; Osaka University, Japan; Bryn Mawr Film Institute; Villanova University

Professional Affiliations:

Renaissance Society of America; Modern Language Association


contact information

Email: paul.wright@cabrini.edu

Office Phone: 610-902-8562

Address: Cabrini College

Grace Hall 212

610 King of Prussia Road

Radnor, PA 19087-3698


Curriculum vitae (pdf file)


courses taught

(Some link to pdf files)

Current Courses:

  1. ✴ENG 290: Literary Theory & Cultural Studies

  2. ✴ENG 316: Milton

  3. ✴ECG 100: Engagements in the Common Good

Courses at Other Institutions:

Bryn Mawr Film Institute

  1. ✴Asian Masters Course

  2. ✴Scorsese’s Cinema of Loneliness

  3. ✴Kurosawa: East Meets West

Trafficking in the Absurd: The Films of the Coen Brothers

Villanova University

  1. ✴Machiavelli & His Readers (Honors Program)

  2. ✴The Renaissance (History)

  3. ✴Milton (English)

  4. ✴The Catholic Cinema of Martin Scorsese (Humanities)

  5. ✴Core Humanities Seminar (Ancient to Renaissance)

  6. ✴Core Humanities Seminar (Enlightenment to the Present)

Osaka University,  Japan

  1. ✴The Genealogies of Power in Critical Discourse: Machiavelli to Foucault (English)

  2. ✴Comparative Popular Culture (English)

Princeton University (as T.A.)

  1. ✴Shakespeare (English)

  2. ✴The Bible in the Western Cultural Tradition (Humanities)

  3. ✴Cultural Interpretation (Humanities)

  4. ✴Medieval Arthurian Romance (English)




 
 

Recent and Ongoing Projects


In addition to my teaching at Cabrini (see links to the left for course information), I am currently engaged in research and writing on a number of subjects.  I am completing a book-length study of Machiavelli, entitled The Alloy of Identity: Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories Reclaimed.  I have recently published an article entitled “Propaganda and the Pornography of Cataclysm: Augustine and Luigi Guicciardini’s Sack of Rome,” in the volume Augustine and History (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008).  Last year I participated in the European University Institute’s seminar in Florence on the topic, “Comparative and Trans-National Approaches to the History of Europe.”  In spring 2009 I will be presenting at the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting; my paper is entitled, “Dead Ends: The Palazzo Vecchio as Medici Space in Machavelli’s Istorie Fiorentine.” For more on my publications and research interests, see the link to my curriculum vitae to the left.