Professor of English
Department of English
Arts & Behavioral Sciences
Academic and Student Affairs
SVSU Main Campus
Science East 166
989-964-4354
dfgates@svsu.edu
Professor Gates specializes in early modern English literature, particularly Shakespeare. He teaches Introduction to Literary Studies (201), Writing Interpretive Papers (301), Literature of Great Britain to 1660 (311), and Survey of Shakespeare (315), among other courses. His research focuses on the religious controversies of early modern England, discourses of religious freedom, the performance of gender on the stage and in the streets of early modern London, and cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare.