Title: 
Assistant Professor
Department: English
Contact Info:
Email: jvotava@allegheny.edu
Phone: (814) 332-4334
Office Location: Odd Fellows 216
Office Hours: Fall 2018
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 12-1, Mondays, Wednesdays 3:30-4:00 pm; Thursdays 2:00-4:00 pm, and by appointment
Courses (FA ’18)
ENGL 110.02 Reading Literature
ENGL 110.03 Reading Literature
ENGL 212- Shakespeare
- Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, New York University, 2012-13
- Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, New York University, 2011-12
- Lane Cooper Fellowship for excellence in pursuing a research and a teaching career in Renaissance Literature, New York University, 2010-11
- H. M. MacCracken Dissertation Fellowship for promising Ph.D. dissertation, 2009-10
GSAS Student Travel Grants, New York University, 2009, 2011 - H. M. MacCracken Fellowship for graduate study, New York University, 2005-09
Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University, 1996 - John Harvard Scholarship for academic excellence, Harvard University, 1993-96
- Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Scholarship for academic excellence, Radcliffe College, 1993-96
- Detur Book Prize for academic excellence as a freshman, Harvard University, 1994
Publications
- “‘The Voice that Will Drown All the City’: Un-Gendering Noise in The Roaring Girl.” Renaissance Drama 39 (2011): 69-95.
- Review of Richard Sugg’s Murder after Death: Literature and Anatomy in Early Modern England. Renaissance Quarterly 61 (Summer 2008): 684-86.