Education

• Ph.D. 2014 University of Wisconsin-Madison
• MA 2007 University of Wisconsin-Madison
• AB 2005 Duke University

Teaching Interests

• Shakespeare
• Early Modern Literature
• Satire

Eric Vivier specializes in early modern English literature, with a particular focus on satire. He teaches classes on Shakespeare, early British literature, and the Honors “Quest” classes (freshman/sophomore seminars in the liberal arts). He is also the Faculty Director for The Streetcar, MSU’s Undergraduate Creative Arts Journal. He is writing a book about early modern English satire.

• Vivier, Eric D. 2020. “What Satire Does: Lessons from the English Renaissance for the Great Age of American Satire.” Genre 53 (3): 199-227.
• Vivier, Eric D. 2020 “Thomas Nashe’s Unprofitable Satire.” Modern Philology 117 (4): 423-444.
• Vivier, Eric D. 2019. “Gabriel Harvey Against Satire.” English Literary Renaissance 49 (2): 172-200.
• Vivier, Eric D. 2017. “Judging Jonson: Ben Jonson’s Satirical Self-Defense in Poetaster.” The Ben Jonson Journal 24 (1): 1-21.
• Vivier, Eric D. 2017. “Pleading for and Against the Devil: Satirical Ethics and Efficacy in The Revenger’s Tragedy.” In The Revenger’s Tragedy: The State of Play, edited by Gretchen Minton, 39-60. Oxford: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare.
• Vivier, Eric D. 2016. “Review Essay: Heather Hirschfeld, The End of Satisfaction: Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare.” The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 16 (3): 145-49.
• Vivier, Eric D. 2014. “John Bridges, Martin Marprelate, and the Rhetoric of Satire.” English Literary Renaissance 44 (1): 3-35.

• College of Arts & Sciences Teaching Award in the Humanities (2019)
• Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Fall 2013)
• Mellon-Wisconsin Summer Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2012)
• Student Housing Honored Instructor Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Spring 2012)