Working at the intersections of the English Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution, Professor Maisano describes his methodology as “New Futurism.” Likening the literary historian to a time-traveler for whom the past is always incomplete and unfinished, Maisano argues that the past will never be known, in its entirety, without the historian’s active intervention, without her going back in time and ‘filling in the gaps.’ Such speculation has led to essays by Professor Maisano that include: “Reading Underwater, or, Fantasies of Fluency from Shakespeare to Mièville and Emshwiller”; “Shakespeare’s Last Act: The Starry Messenger and the Galilean Book in Cymbeline”; “Infinite Gesture: Automata and Emotions in Descartes and Shakespeare”; “Shakespeare’s Dead Sea Scroll: On the Apocryphal Appearance of Pericles” and “Whither Brutus?: Rethinking Julius Caesar in the New American Century.”

His talk for the 9th Annual Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference is tentatively titled: “Truth Unveiled by Time, or, Shakespeare’s Revolution.”