Michelle M. Dowd
Contact Information
E-mail: mmdowd@uncg.edu
Office: MHRA 3123
Office Phone: 336-334-5384
At UNCG Since: 2004
Education
Ph.D. Columbia University-2003
M. Phil. Columbia University-2000
Graduate Certificate in Feminist Scholarship, Columbia University-2000
M.A. Columbia University-1998
B.A., summa cum laude, University of Rochester-1997
Research Interests
Dr. Dowd specializes in early modern literature, with concentrations in Tudor and Stuart Drama, Shakespeare, and early modern women’s writing. Her additional teaching and research interests include early modern theater culture, dramatic genres, feminist theory and gender studies, economic criticism, and early modern religious culture. Dr. Dowd’s current book project, Delinquent Pedigrees: Lineage and Spatial Practice on the Early Modern Stage, traces the distinctive role of Renaissance drama in maintaining and transforming inheritance practices in early modern England.
Selected Publications
- “Genealogical Counter-Narratives in the Writings of Mary Carey.” Forthcoming in Modern Philology.
- Early Modern Women on the Fall: An Anthology. Co-editor with Thomas Festa. Forthcoming from Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Tempe, AZ (Spring 2012)
- Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama. Co-editor with Natasha Korda. Forthcoming from Ashgate (Spring 2011).
- Co-author with Julie A. Eckerle. “Recent Studies in Early Modern Life Writing.” English Literary Renaissance 40.1 (2010): 132-62
- “Shakespeare and Work.” Literature Compass 7.3 (2010): 185-94
- “Delinquent Pedigrees: Revision, Lineage, and Spatial Rhetoric in The Duchess of Malfi.” English Literary Renaissance 39.3 (2009): 499-526.
- Women’s Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Winner of the Sara A. Whaley Book Award from the National Women’s Studies Association
- Genre and Women’s Life Writing in Early Modern England. Co-editor with Julie A. Eckerle. Aldershot, Ashgate Pub., 2007
- “Labors of Love: Women, Marriage, and Service in Twelfth Night and The Compleat Servant-Maid.” Shakespearean International Yearbook 5 (2005): 103-26.
- “Leaning Too Hard Upon the Pen: Suburb Wenches and City Wives in Westward Ho.” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 15 (2003): 224-42.
Awards and Honors
- University Research Excellence Award, UNCG, 2009-2010
- Sara A. Whaley Book Award from the National Women’s Studies Association for Women’s Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture, 2009.
- Summer Excellence Research Grants, UNCG, 2005, 2008, and 2010.
- Grant-in-Aid, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001 and 2009.
- Linda Arnold Carlisle Faculty Research Grant in Women’s and Gender Studies, UNCG, 2008-2009.
- Regular Faculty Research Grant, UNCG, 2008-2009.
- Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Long-Term Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2006-2007.
- Center for Humanistic Inquiry Junior Fellowship, Emory University, 2006-2007 (declined).
- New Faculty Research Grant, UNCG, 2005-2006.
- Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, 1997-1998.
- Phi Beta Kappa, 1996.
Links
Genre and Women's Life Writing in Early Modern England
Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama
Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture