About
Professor of Shakespeare, late 16th and early 17th century English Drama, and Women’s and Gender studies at Hunter College, CUNY. Author of
Fantasies of Female Evil: The Dynamics of Gender and Power in Shakespearean Tragedy. U of Delaware P, 2003;
Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Routledge, 2017; and Co-editor, with Emily G. Sherwood, of
Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne: Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies, Routledge 2021. Series Editor, with Helen Ostovich, of “
Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Gender, Performance, and Material Culture,” for Medieval Institute Publications. Research and teaching interests include, Shakespeare, Early Modern English drama, gender studies, sexuality, political history, history of women, marriage law, parrhesia, and feminist ethics.
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Other Publications
BOOKS
Alfar, Cristina León and Emily Sherwood, eds.
Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne: Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies, Routledge, 2021. “The Early Modern Englishwoman in Print, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions,” edited by Anne Prescott and Betty Travitsky. Preview the Introduction at
Taylor & Francis. Follow
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Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Routledge, 2017. “Women and Gender in the Early Modern World.”
Now available in paperback!
Preview the introduction, available from
Taylor and Francis. Chapter one, “Early Modern Women’s Narratives of Marital Betrayal,” is available in Routledge’s
Shakespeare Studies Chapter Sampler.
Fantasies of Female Evil: The Dynamics of Gender and Power in Shakespearean Tragedy. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2003. (Available on
Google Play Books and Questia, a library subscription service.)
ARTICLES
“Abandoning Tragedy in James Ijames
Fat Ham,” Borrowers and Lenders, forthcoming.
“Feminist Authorship Studies.”
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Authorship. Edited by Rory Loughnane and Will Sharpe. Forthcoming.
“Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in
Richard III.”
Social Research: An International Quarterly, vol. 86, no. 3, Nov 2019, pp. 789-819.
“‘Let’s Consult together’: Women’s Agency and the Gossip Network in
The Merry Wives of Windsor.” Solicited for publication in
The Merry Wives of Windsor: New Critical Essays. Eds. Phyllis Rackin and Evelyn Gajowski. New York: Routledge, 2015. 38-50.
“‘Proceed in Justice’: Narratives of Marital Betrayal in
The Winter’s Tale.” Solicited for publication in
Justice, Women and Power in English Renaissance Drama, Edited by Andrew J. Majeske and Emily Detmer-Goebel. Madison and Teaneck, N.J.: Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2009. 46-65.
“Elizabeth Cary’s Female Trinity: Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in
The Tragedy of Mariam.” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Volume 3, (2008): 61-103.
“Looking for Goneril and Regan.”
Privacy, Domesticity and Women in Early Modern England, ed. Corinne Abate. Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2003. 167-198.
“‘Blood Will Have Blood’: Power, Performance, and Lady Macbeth’s Gender Trouble.” Jx: A Journal in Culture and Criticism. 2.2 (1998): 179-207.
“King Lear’s ‘Immoral’ Daughters and the Politics of Kingship.”
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 8.2 (1996): 375-400.
“Staging the Feminine Performance of Desire: Masochism in
The Maid’s Tragedy.”
Papers on Language and Literature. 31.3 (1995): 313-333.
EDITING
Series Editor, with Helen Ostovich, “
Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Gender, Performance, and Material Culture.” Medieval Institute Publications — MIP — The University Press at Kalamazoo.
