Dr. Curran specializes in Renaissance literature and theater with particular interests in Shakespeare, law, philosophy and critical theory, performance, and the culture of the court. His first book, Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court (Ashgate, 2009), looks at how political, religious, and sexual understandings of “union” came to bear on the formation of a uniquely Jacobean political imagination. Curran is also preparing an edition of Samuel Daniel's play, The Tragedy of Philotas, which will be published by Manchester University Press as part of the “Revels Plays” series. He is currently working on a new book called Shakespeare’s Legal Subjects: Law and Selfhood in the Plays and Sonnets, and he recently co-edited a special issue of the journal Criticism on “Shakespeare and Phenomenology.” Curran has received grants and fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Huntington Library, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Harry Ransom Research Center, among others. He is the editor of a new book series called “Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare, Theory, and Performance,” published by Edinburgh University Press. At UNT, he is founder and convener of the Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium. In 2012, Dr. Curran won the Kesterson Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching and the Professor of the Year Award from the Graduate Students of English Association.