Joseph Ortiz
Associate Professor of English, UTEP, PhD Princeton University, jmortiz7@utep.edu
Joseph M. Ortiz joined the English Department at UTEP as an Associate Professor in 2012, after teaching at the State University of New York, Brockport for seven years. He received his BA in English and mathematics from Yale University, and his PhD in English from Princeton University. His research interests include English Renaissance literature, Italian Renaissance poetry, classical Latin literature, translation studies, and the relationship between music and language. His book, Broken Harmony: Shakespeare and the Politics of Music, was published by Cornell University Press in 2011. He has published a number essays on Milton, Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and Gordon Merrick, and he is the editor of Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism, which will appear from Ashgate in 2013. He is currently working on his second monograph, a study of the relationship between form and translation in Renaissance literature.