Professor of English
PhD 1978 (Comparative Literature) MA 1972 (Comparative Literature) University of California, Berkeley BA 1970 (English) Randolph-Macon Woman's College

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Research Interests:

Shakespeare and Renaissance drama; early modern literature and culture, English and continental; literary theory; gender studies; cultural translation

Affiliations:

Editorial board, differences, a Journal of Feminist and Cultural Studies; Editorial Advisory Board, Scott Foresman Sakespeare; MLA, RSA, English Institute

Fellowships/Honors:

Phi Beta Kappa; Harvard Mellon Faculty Fellowship; AAUW Faculty Fellowship; Guggenheim Fellowship; Folger Fellowship; NEH Fellowship

Selected Works:

Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris (forthcoming Princeton University Press)
The Story of Sapho, translation of Madeleine de Scudery's Histoire de Sapho (University of Chicago Press, 2003)
Fetal Positions, Individualism, Science, Visuality (Stanford University Press, 1996)
Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama (University of Chicago Press, 1991)
Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character (Methuen, 1985)

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