Philip Lorenz, Assistant Professor of English, received his B.A. in English and Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in English from New York University. From 2004-2006 he was a Bradley Visiting Professor in the Honors College at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, before joining the English department at Cornell. He has published articles on the ‘Religious Turn’ in Renaissance studies ("Notes on the 'Religious Turn': Mystery, Metaphor, Medium." English Language Notes 44.1 [Spring 2006]), and on Shakespeare and the Jesuit theologian and philosopher, Francisco Suárez (“'Christall Mirrors': Analogy and Onto-Theology in Shakespeare and Suárez." Religion and Literature 38.4 [Winter 2006]), and he is currently completing his first book, The Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama (under contract with Fordham University Press).His areas of interest include Renaissance Drama, Political Theology, Psychoanalysis, Poetics and Theory, and Philosophy.