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Maureen Quilligan, R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English and Department Chair, English

Contact Info:

Office Location:	312 Allen
Office Phone:	919-684-2203, 919-684-2741
Email Address:

Office Hours:

Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 - 1:00,
Wednesdays 2:00 - 4:00, and by appointment.

Education:

Ph.D.	Harvard University	1973
M.A.	University of California, Berkeley	1967
B.A.	University of California, Berkeley	1965

Specialties:

Renaissance/Early Modern Literature
British Literature

Research Interests: Renaissance Literature

Maureen Quilligan has as a primary field of interest the Renaissance, with special attention to women and literature. She has published four books: The Language of Allegory: Defining the Genre (1979) Milton's Spenser: The Politics of Reading (1983), The Allegory of Female Authority: Christine de Pizan's Cite des Dames (1991) and Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England (2005). She has also co-edited two volumes of essays titled Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe (1986) and Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture, published in 1996 by Cambridge University Press. Among other fellowships she has held a Guggenheim and an ACLS and was awarded the Sidonie Clauss Prize for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities at Yale (1983) as well as the Undergraduate Advisory Board Teaching Prize at the University of Pennsylvania (1997). She is at work on two current projects: female political authority in the sixteenth century, and slavery in the Renaissance epic.

Areas of Interest:

British Literature
Early Modern Literature
British & Continental Literature

Keywords:

Europe • England • Renaissance • Women • Literature

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Darrell Smith  
• Whitney Tretien  
• Layla Aldousany  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Quilligan, M, Theodor De Bry's voyages to the new and old worlds, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 41 no. 1 (December, 2011), pp. 1-12, Duke University Press, ISSN 1082-9636 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
2. Quilligan, M, The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture, Modern Language Quarterly, vol. 72 no. 2 (June, 2011), pp. 259-262, Duke University Press, ISSN 0026-7929 [doi]
3. Margaret Hannay, Mary Wroth, Renaissance Quarterly (2011), University of Chicago Press  [abs]
4. Bruce R. Smith, The Key of Green, Modern Philology (2011)  [abs]
5. Quilligan, M, Review of Bruce R. Smith's The Key of Green, Modern Philology (2011)  [abs]