Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1995-Present) 

• Professor

• Director of the Composition and Literature Masters Program

• Email: Corchard@iup.edu 

Education: 

• D.Phil. University of Oxford (1994)

• M.Phil. University of Oxford (1989)

• B.A. University of London (1987)

Recent Publications: 

• Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth Century Britain (Routledge, 2023)

• "Asynchronous Edward: Comparing Online Responses to Gender in Christopher Marlowe's Edward II and Elizabeth Cary's The History of the Most Unfortunate Edward II", Journal of Marlowe Studies, Vol 3 (2023), ed. Paul Frazer and Adam Hansen

• " 'Do not think it cannot happen here': the dystopian Tempest of 1980s Thatcherite Britain in Philip Osment's This Island's Mine" (In-Progress, 2024)

Research and Teaching Interests: 

• Humor studies, political satire, 19th-century American literature, periodical studies, hemispheric American literature

Recent Conferences: 

• “The Traumatizing of Marriage and the Resilience of the Recovered Self in the Post 9/11 Novel”  NEMLA, Niagara Falls, March 27-30, 2023

• “Strange Brew and Glaswegian Drug Lords”: Reimagining Shakespeare in Jo Nesbo’s Macbeth. Misericordia College, PA. April 16, 2019

• “Political Disorder in Cromwellian London and Edmund Prestwich’s The Hectors (1655).” 42nd Comparative Drama Conference, Rollins College, Orlando, FL. April 5-7, 2018.