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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. University of Rochester-1997

Research Interests
Dr. Dowd specializes in early modern literature, with concentrations in Tudor and Stuart Drama (particularly 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. Professor Dowd is currently at work on several projects, including an anthology of writings by seventeenth-century Englishwomen on the Fall narrative from Genesis and a monograph, tentatively titled Delinquent Pedigrees: Lineage and Spatial Practice on the Early Modern Stage.

Selected Publications

• Co-author with Julie A. Eckerle. “Recent Studies in Early Modern Life Writing.” English Literary Renaissance, forthcoming Spring 2010.
• “Delinquent Pedigrees: Revision, Lineage, and Spatial Rhetoric in The Duchess of Malfi.” English Literary Renaissance, forthcoming Fall 2009. 
• Women’s Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture. New York: Palgrave   Macmillan, 2009.
• Co-editor with Julie A. Eckerle. Genre and Women’s Life Writing in Early Modern England. Aldershot: Ashgate Pub., 2007.
• Introduction. Genre and Women’s Life Writing in Early Modern England. Ed. Michelle M. Dowd and Julie A. Eckerle. Aldershot: Ashgate Pub., 2007: 1-13.
• “Structures of Piety in Elizabeth Richardson’s Legacie.” Genre and Women’s Life Writing in Early Modern England. Ed. Michelle M. Dowd and Julie A. Eckerle. Aldershot: Ashgate Pub., 2007: 115-130.
• “Labors of Love: Women, Marriage, and Service in Twelfth Night and The Compleat Servant-Maid.” Shakespearean International Yearbook 5 (2005): 103-            126.  
• “Leaning Too Hard Upon the Pen: Suburb Wenches and City Wives in Westward Ho.” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 15 (2003): 224-242.

Awards and Honors

• 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).
• Summer Excellence Research Grants, UNCG, 2005 and 2008.
• New Faculty Research Grant, UNCG, 2005-2006.
• Grant-in-Aid, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001.
• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, 1997-1998.
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1996.

Links
            Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
            Genre and Women's Life Writing in Early Modern England

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