Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky has taught at Kenyon since 1993. He teaches courses on Shakespeare, Renaissance poetry, film, and fiction writing. His research centers on the politics of spectacle in early modern drama, and he has also published a series of crime novels under the pseudonym Kenneth Abel. In 2001, he received the Junior Trustee Award for Teaching Excellence.

Education

Ph.D. Harvard
M.A. Stanford
B.A. Louisiana State University

Selected Publications

"Taming the Basilisk: The Eye in the Discourses of Renaissance Anatomy," The Body in Parts: Discourses and Anatomies in Early Modern Europe, Routledge, 1997.

"The Triumphes of Golde: Economic Authority in the Jacobean Lord Mayor's Show," ELH 60 (1993): 879-898.

The Burying Field (as Kenneth Abel), Putnam, 2002.
Cold Steel Rain (as Kenneth Abel), Putnam, 2000.
Bait (as Kenneth Abel), Delacorte Press, 1993.

Courses Taught

ENGL 103/104 Seductions
ENGL 200 Introduction to Fiction Writing
ENGL 220 Shakespeare
ENGL 291 Texting: Reading Like an English Major
ENGL 319 Mean Streets, American Dreams -- Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and Film Noir
ENGL 320 Shakespeare: Strange Fish and Bearded Women
ENGL 321 Shakespeare on Film
ENGL 336 Seventeenth-Century Poetry