Dr. Nicholas Utzig

Assistant Professor

English and World Languages

nicholas.utzig [at] westpoint.edu

Nicholas Utzig joined the Department of English and World Languages in fall 2024. Before returning to USMA, he taught Renaissance literature at Sarah Lawrence College. His research primarily focuses on war and militarism in early modern English drama. His scholarly work appears in the Shakespeare Bulletin, Shakespeare Studies, and the Journal of War and Culture Studies, and his reviews can be found in Theatre Survey, Comitatus, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. 

Dr. Utzig is the co-editor of "Much Ado About Nothing and the New Awareness," and he is working on a book about the midcentury Shakespearean actor-producer Maurice Evans and his circle.

Ph.D. - Harvard University

M.A. - New York University

B.S. - USMA

Research Interests

Shakespeare, English Renaissance drama, theater and performance, history of the book

Selected Publications

“Shakespearean Jus Post Bellum: Ethical Ends to War in Henry V,” Shakespeare Studies 51 (2023): 73-83. 

“‘The first entirely masculine Hamlet of our time’: Maurice Evans’s 1938 Hamlet, in Its Entirety,” Shakespeare Bulletin: The Journal of Early Modern Drama in Performance 39.2 (2021): 215-39. doi: 10.1353/shb.2021.0022 

“Bearing Hamlet Like a Soldier to the Stage: Maurice Evans’s G.I. Hamlet,” Journal of War and Culture Studies 13.2 (2020): 127-44. doi: 10.1080/17526272.2019.1601358