Courses
ENGLISH 418: SHAKESPEARE IENGLISH 421: LATER RENAISSANCE POETRY AND PROSE
ENGLISH 397: HONORS SEMINAR II
- TOPIC:
Gender and Geography in Renaissance Women Writers
ENGLISH 418: SHAKESPEARE I
ENGLISH 423: MILTON
ENGLISH 318: SHAKESPEARE
ENGLISH 204: RENAISSANCE LITERATURE AND CULTURE
ENGLISH 321: POETRY AND PROSE FROM THE METAPHYSICALS TO 1660
ENGLISH 204 M: RENAISSANCE LITERATURE AND CULTURE
ENGLISH 323 P: MILTON
ENGLISH 280 P: WOMEN WRITERS
- TOPIC: Renaissance Women Writers
ENGLISH 321 S: POETRY AND PROSE FROM THE METAPHYSICALS TO 1660
Research Interests
Seventeenth-century British literature, early modern women's writing, Milton, feminist and critical theory.
Publications
Women Writers and Public Debate in Seventeenth-Century Britain. New York: Palgrave, July 2007.
"Katherine Philips and the Post-Courtly Coterie." ELR 32.3 (2002): 426-51.
"'Feeding on the Seed of the Woman': Dorothy Leigh and the Figure of Maternal Dissent." ELH 68 (2001): 563-92.
"Introduction and contextual materials for Eliza's Babes. Renaissance Women Online. Brown University Women Writers Project. http://www.wwp.brown.edu/
Work in Progress
Book manuscript: Body Politics: Violence and Gender in the Poetry of the British Civil Wars addresses the middle of the seventeenth century in Britain, when a political imaginary still influenced by the idea of the body as the cohesive, organizing principle of the state collides with the outbreak of civil war, in which individual bodies are experienced as particularly vulnerable, permeable, and subject to violent dismemberment. This project focuses on the poetic response to this collision, analyzing the way that gendered representations of the real violence unleashed by the wars test the boundaries of traditional and emergent models of political legitimacy and efficacy in key poetic genres such as epic, elegy, and the country house poem.
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University of Illinois