Philip Gilreath, PhD

Assistant Instructional Professor

University Writing Program

Pedagogical Interests

Writing in the disciplines, writing in the sciences, writing in the technical professions, first-year writing.

Research Interests

Adaptation Theory, the history of rhetoric, early modern drama, writing studies.

Best Writing Advice

“Take something to write on. Paper is good. In a pinch, pieces of wood or your arm will do” - Margaret Atwood.

Publications

“‘Shakespeare Never Said That: The Internet’s Thousand Hamlets” Shakespeare 21.2, 2025.
“Permission to Invade: Doom 2099’s ‘Muses of Fire’” Shakespeare and Comics, The Arden Shakespeare (Bloomsbury 2024).
"'The art itself is Nature': Dissolution of the Human Form in Shakespeare’s Green Worlds" ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 29.4, 2022(https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaa199).
“‘Cloud Capped Towers’ Made of Sand: Dissolving Barriers to Female Authorship in Julie Taymor’s Tempest” Journal of Adaptation Studies 15.1, 2022 (https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apaa037).
“Props and Prostheses: Lavinia the ‘speechless complainer’” Arrêt sur scène/Scene Focus 10, 2021.