sdressel@chapman.eduAssistant Professor, Instructional FacultyWilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Department of EnglishBy appointment via https://goo.gl/6tpWroSmith Hall 8FFutile Pleasures: Early Modern Literature and the Limits of UtilitySamantha Dressel teaches a variety of literature and writing courses including Lit I: Antiquity to 1400, Writing About Diverse Cultures, and FFC: Sweet, Sweet Vengeance. Her scholarly interest is in English Renaissance revenge tragedy. She is currently working on her first monograph, Vocabularies of Violence, which explores the visual and verbal communication of trauma in those gory texts.  She is particularly interested in violence used to rhetorical effect and how its implementation relates to gender. Along with early literature, she also loves teaching post-colonial science fiction and anything involving revenge. Dr. Dressel is currently the treasurer for RMMRA, the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association.pr@chapman.edusdressel@chapman.edu