Dana Van Kooy

Short Biography

Dana Van Kooy is a Ph.D. candidate in the English department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her M.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and her B.A. from Marquette University. Her research interests include Romanticism, drama, radicalism, cultural studies, and literary theory. She has attended a number of conferences (MLA, NASSR, and ICR, among others) and has presented papers on Joanna Baillie, Sydney Owenson, Sir Walter Scott, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Currently, she is working on her dissertation, Shelley's Radical Stages. This is a contextual study of Percy Shelley's drama and focuses on the cultural relationships between the discourses of radicalism and reform and those of the drama and the theatre. Emphasizing these issues and addressing questions of genre formation and deployment, it offers multiple perspectives of Shelley's drama that locate his dramatic and political practices on local, national, and international stages.