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 and Film

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


courses taught

(Some link to pdf files)

Current Courses:

  1. English 290: Literary Theory & Cultural Studies

  2. Honors ECG 100 A/B: Reacting to the Past, Engaging the Present

  3. ECG 100 Film & Media LLC: Reacting to the Past, Engaging the Present

  4. English 315: Shakespeare

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.  In spring 2012,  I will be presenting at the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting in Washington, D.C.; my paper is entitled “The Raw and the Cooked: The Renaissance as Cultural Trope in Times of Crisis.” I also present and publish in the area of media studies.  In that area, I am revising an article for publication entitled, “Tracking The Wire: A People’s History of the War on Drugs”; I have also done work on Deadwood, Lost, and Breaking Bad.  For more on my publications and research interests, see the link to my curriculum vitae to the left.