McAdam, Ian

Chair/Professor

English Department

Phone
(403) 329-2371
Email
mcadam@uleth.ca

Biography

At the University of Lethbridge since 1995, Ian McAdam teaches courses in early modern English literature, and a variety of introductory literature courses.  He was the winner of the University of Lethbridge Distinguished Teaching Award in 2009.

Publications

Books:
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The Irony of Identity: Self and Imagination in the Drama of Christopher Marlowe.  Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999.

Magic and Masculinity in Early Modern English Drama.  Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2009.

Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Religious Toleration.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025.


​Articles:

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"Edward II and the Illusion of Integrity," Studies in Philology 92 (1995): 203-29.

"Carnal Identity in The Jew of Malta," English Literary Renaissance 26 (1996): 46-74.

"Renaissance Inwardness and Current Critical Practice" (review article). Dalhousie Review 76 (1996): 273-84.

"Masculinity and Magic in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay," Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 37 (1998): 33-61.  Reprinted in Robert Greene: The University Wits, ed. Kirk Melnikoff (Ashgate, 2011).

"Masculine Disaffection and Misogynistic Displacement in Carew's Love Lyrics," The Image of Manhood in the Seventeenth Century: Viewing the Male, ed. Andrew Williams.  Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999.  1-15.

"The Spanish Tragedy and the Politico-Religious Unconscious," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 42 (Spring 2000): 33-60.

"Fiction and Projection: The Construction of Early Modern Sexuality in Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love," Pacific Coast Philology 35.1 (2000): 49-60.

"The Repudiation of the Marvelous: Jonson's The Alchemist and the Limits of Satire," Quidditas: Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 21 (2000): 59-77.  [appearing 2002]

"Protestant Manliness in Arden of Faversham," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 45 (Spring 2003): 42-72.

"The Puritan Dialectic of Law and Grace in Bartholomew Fair," Studies in English Literature 46.2 (Spring 2006): 415-33.

"Masculine Agency and Moral Stance in Shakespeare's King John," Philological Quarterly 86.1 & 2 (2007): 67-95.  Reprinted in Shakespeare Criticism (SC-142) (Gale, 2011).

"Milton, Satan, Galileo, and Gunpowder," Notes and Queries 253.3 (2008): 289-91.

"Remembering Ibsen in Tennessee Williams," Notes on Contemporary Literature 42.4 (September 2012): 6-8.

"Magic and Gender in Late Shakespeare," in Late Shakespeare: Plays, Themes and Contexts 1608-1613, ed. Andrew Power and Rory Loughnane (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).  243-61.

"The Jew of Malta and The Merchant of Venice: A Reconsideration of Influence," in The Jew of Malta: A Critical Reader, ed. Robert A. Logan (London: Bloomsbury, 2013).  107-27.

"Masculinity in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist," in The Alchemist: A Critical Reader, ed. Erin Julian and Helen Ostovich (London: Bloomsbury, 2013).  127-39.

"Eucharistic Love in The Merchant of Venice," Renaissance and Reformation 38.1 (2015): 83-116.

"Dido Queen of Carthage, Hamlet, and the Transformation of Narcissism," Marlowe Studies: An Annual 5 (2015): 99-129.

"Calvinism and the Problematic of Character in The Revenger's Tragedy," in the Arden State of Play collection, ed. Gretchen Minton (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), 85-109.

"Herbert's 'The Collar; and St. Paul's Laurels," co-authored with Jordan Born, Notes and Queries 64.3 (2017): 401-403.

"Individuation and Religious Mythology in the Novels of W.O. Mitchell," University of Toronto Quarterly 87.2 (Spring 2018): 16-38.

"Shakespeare's Inversion of 1 Corinthians 9 in 1 Henry IV," Notes and Queries 65.1 (2018): 69-70.

"Spectatorship and Repression in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night," in Early Modern Spectatorship, ed. Ronald Huebert and David McNeil (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019), 77-103.

"Dickens, Longfellow, and the Mills of God," Notes and Queries 67.1 (March 2020): 108-109.

"Further Allusions to Marlowe in The Comedy of Errors," Notes and Queries 67.1 (September 2022): 211-14.

"Ruskin's Alpine Image in Rossetti's 'Goblin Market'," Notes and Queries 73.1 (March 2026): 143-45.

"The Devil's Charter as Masculinist Revision of Doctor Faustus," Renaissance Drama 54.1 (Spring 2026): 21-49.

"The Massacre at Paris and the Babington Execution," forthcoming in Notes and Queries.











Degrees

BA (English, Hons.), University of Victoria; MA (English), University of Toronto; PhD (English), Dalhousie University

Research Areas


Masculine self-fashioning in Shakespeare
The effects of Reformation theology on early modern masculine self-construction

Previous Research Areas

Masculine self-fashioning in early modern drama
Renaissance magic and witchcraft

Expertise

Early modern masculinity
Renaissance magic and witchcraft
Psychoanalytic approaches to Renaissance literature
Psychology of religion
Reformation theology
Milton and the seventeenth-century religious poets
Early modern drama
Shakespeare