Daniel Normandin

Daniel Normandin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Marshall University, where he joined in 2022 after two years as a postdoctoral fellow at George Mason University. He teaches courses on Shakespeare, environmental representations in literature and film, introductory literary analysis, and composition, with a focus on diverse media and genres spanning ancient Roman texts to science fiction.

Education:

• PhD, Washington University in St. Louis, 2020

Research Interests: Dr. Normandin’s work intersects early modern literature, Shakespeare studies, memory studies, and ecocriticism. He examines how early modern English writers engaged with colonial ventures in Ireland and the Americas by reimagining England’s own ancient past as an occupied space. His interests also include postcolonial theory, film analysis, and interdisciplinary approaches to literary and cultural history.

Publications: His research has appeared in Modern Philology, Early Modern Literary Studies, and the essay collection Memory and Affect in Shakespeare’s England (Cambridge University Press). He is currently completing a book manuscript titled Planting the Past: Colonial Memory in Early Modern England, which analyzes the entanglement of historical and colonial narratives in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts.