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Stephen Deng’s research interests include early modern literature, material culture, new economic criticism, and theories of ethics and accountability. His monograph, 'Coinage and State Formation in Early Modern English Literature' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), reassesses the historical relationship between money and the state through the lens of early modern English literature. In particular, he examines the political implications of monetary form in light of the material and visual properties of coins, revealing how the material uses of literary representations of coins inform key elements of early modern English state formation. Deng edited the collection of essays titled 'Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture, 1500–1700' (Palgrave, 2008), which investigates the relationship between literature and economy in the context of the unprecedented expansion of early modern England’s long-distance trade, offering a new history of globalization as a complex and unevenly developing cultural, discursive, and economic phenomenon. Currently, Deng is editing a Renaissance volume on the Cultural History of Money and contract with Bloomsbury and is working on articles regarding the literary impacts of transformations in English commercial colonial culture between 1620-1660, alongside a working monograph on Hamlet.
Department of Psychology