Minton’s publications focus upon the overlapping categories of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, textual editing, the English Reformation, performance criticism, and the reception of Shakespeare in the American West. Her more recent research involves collaborations across disciplines, with special attention given to environmental history.
Tracing over two centuries of history, Minton’s most recent monograph, Shakespeare in Montana, uncovers Montana’s love affair with William Shakespeare. From mountain men, pioneers, itinerant acting companies in mining camps, women's clubs at the turn of the twentieth century and the current popularity of Shakespeare in the Parks across Montana, the book chronicles the stories of residents across this incredible western state who have been attracted to the words and works of Shakespeare.
Awards for Shakespeare in Montana:
2020 Montana Book of the Year
2021 High Plains Big Sky Award
Books
(Click on each book shown below for specific information about that book, as well as purchasing information.)
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• “The Ecological Journey of Imogen in Montana’s Parks.” With Mikey Gray. New Theatre Quarterly 38.4 (2022): 299-318.
• “Ecological Adaptation in Montana: Timon of Athens to Timon of Anaconda.” New Theatre Quarterly 37.1 (2021): 20-37. Accompanying Cambridge Core blog: https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2021/03/04/mining-shakespeare/
• “Shakespeare in Frontier and Territorial Montana, 1820-1889.” Montana the Magazine of Western History 70.2 (2020): 24-43. Honorable mention for the Spur Award, Western Writers of America, 2020.
• “‘The season of all natures’: Montana Shakespeare in the Parks’ Global Warming Macbeth.” Shakespeare Bulletin 36.3 (2018): 429-48.
• “The Wrathful Dragon versus the Foolish, Fond Old Man: Duality of Performance in the 2013 Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s King Lear.” With Kevin A. Quarmby. Cahiers Élisabéthains 86 (2014): 63-74.
• “Apocalyptic Tragicomedy for a Jacobean Audience: Dekker’s Whore of Babylon and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline.” Renaissance and Reformation 36.1 (2013): 131-54.
• “The Word as an Artifact of Remembrance: Joyce Hales, John Bradford, and a Bible.” With Michael F. Graham. Reformation 18.1 (2013): 64-83.
• “The Afterlife of Timon of Athens: The Palest Fire.” Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 5.1 (2010): 1-16.
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“Shakespeare’s Walking Story: Site-specific Theatre in a Covid World.” In The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface, ed. Paul Budra and Cliff Werier, 2022. 319-31.
• “The Play in 2015.” With Anthony B. Dawson. Updated section of Troilus and Cressida, taking account of critical and performative approaches to the play in the past decade. Cambridge UP, 2017.
• “‘A marvelous convenient place: Women Reading Shakespeare in Montana, 1890-1918.” In Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception, Performance, ed. Gordon McMullan, Lena Cowen Orlin and Virginia Mason Vaughan. Bloomsbury, 2013. 183-93.
• “The Revenger’s Tragedy in 2002: Alex Cox’s Punk Apocalypse.” In Apocalyptic Shakespeare: Essays on Visions of Chaos and Revelation in Recent Film Adaptations, ed. Melissa Croteau and Carolyn Jess-Cooke. McFarland, 2009. 132-47.
• “‘Discharging less than the tenth part of one’: Performance Anxiety and/in Troilus and Cressida.” In Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance, ed. Paul Yachnin and Patricia Badir. Ashgate, 2008. 101-19.
• “John Bale’s Image of Both Churches and the English Paraphrase of Revelation.” In Holy Scripture Speaks: The Production and Reception of Erasmus’ Paraphrases on the New Testament, ed. Hilmar M. Pabel and Mark Vessey. U of Toronto P, 2002. 291-312.
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“Big Skies and Specific Sites: Shakespeare’s Environments in the North American West.” Invited lecture, Exeter University (Dec. 2022)
• Respondent for international panel, “Ocean Memory: Early Modern Pasts and Uncertain Futures” (Oecologies Research Cluster, online, May 2022)
• “Shakespeare and the Settlement of the American Frontier.” Plenary address, German Shakespeare Conference (Bochum, Germany, Apr. 2022)
• “Timon of Anaconda and Mining: Site-specific Ecological Adaptation.” Globe4Globe: Shakespeare and Climate Emergency, Globe Theatre, London (Apr. 2021) Video presentation at www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rnqP5vUB7c
• “Shakespeare in Montana.” Montana History Conference (Sep. 2020)
• “Shakespeare’s Last Best Place.” Provost’s Distinguished Lecture, MSU (Mar. 2019)
• “Performing Shakespeare’s Wild West.” Green College, University of British Columbia (Oct. 2018)
• “Henry V and the Stages of History.” Festival Noons lecture at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Aug. 2018)
• “Shakespearean Texts and Eco-criticism.” Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (June 2018)
• “Shakespeare’s Sojourns in Western Montana.” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Montana (February, 2018)
• “Discovered Countries: My Travels with Shakespeare.” MSU Faculty Innovation Roadshow (Feb. 2018)
• “Forced Conversion and Unnatural Grace in Thomas Middleton’s Tragedies.” Conversion as Periodization workshop (Montreal, Aug. 2017)
• “Shakespeare’s Montana Schoolhouses.” Festival of the West (MSU, Apr. 2017)
• “Friendship’s Price in Timon of Athens.” Festival Noons talk at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, Sep. 2016)
• “Shakespeare Stories in Montana: Mountain Men to Miners.” Willy the Kid: Shakespeare in the American West (Cedar City, UT, Jul. 2016)
• “Performance and Power in Much Ado about Nothing.” Festival Noons talk at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, June 2015)
• “Knavish Sentences: Middleton’s Commonplacing in The Revenger’s Tragedy.” Strathclyde University (Glasgow, Nov. 2014)
• “The Bursting Heart of King Lear” and “Cymbeline: A Fairy Tale Gone Mad.” Two Festival Noons talks at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, Aug. 2013)
• “War, Lechery, and Impossible Points of View in Troilus and Cressida.” Festival Noons talk at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, Aug. 2012)