Biography
Patrick Soto is a PhD candidate in the combined program in Comparative Literature and Early Modern Studies at Yale University. His research takes a queer approach to questions of genre, reception and cultural adaptation in early modern drama and poetry. His dissertation project, “Plotting Marriage in Early Modern Drama,” presents a denaturalizing account of the marriage plot before the novel. Tracing the circulation and reception of the marital ending as a convention of comic closure in English, Italian, and ancient Roman comedies, romances, and history plays, it argues that marriage plotting queers processes of literary reproduction and filiation.