Stephen Deng

Stephen Deng is Associate Professor of Literary Studies in the English Department at MSU. Deng’s research interests include early modern literature, material culture, economic criticism, early modern theology, and accountability. He is the author of Coinage and State Formation in Early Modern English Literature (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011), editor of A Cultural History of Money in the Renaissance (Bloomsbury, 2019), and co-editor of Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550-1700 (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008). He has also written on the literary impacts on transformations in English commercial and colonial culture, c. 1620-1660; on the role of Edmund Waller’s poetry in emergent English colonialism; on the “new mathematics” and sexuality in Shakespeare’s sonnets; and on Sir Edward Coke’s translation of English common law and the establishment of a “juristic public” in seventeenth century England. Currently, he is working on a second monograph, titled Hamlet and Accountability: Conscience, Debt, and Providential Narratives, as well as an essay on politically-motivated misogyny in Hamlet.