| Maureen Quilligan, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor Emerita of English
Office Location: | 320 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708 | Office Phone: | (919) 681-2149 | Email Address: |
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- Office Hours:
- Tuesdays 11:00am - 1:00pm,
Thursdays 2:00 -4:00pm, and by appointment Education:
- Ph.D. Harvard University 1973
- M.A. University of California, Berkeley 1967
- B.A. University of California, Berkeley 1965
- Specialties:
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Renaissance/Early Modern Literature
British Literature
- Research Interests:
Maureen Quilligan has as a primary field of
interest the Renaissance, with special
attention to women and literature. She has
published three books The Language of
Allegory: Defining the Genre (1979) Milton's
Spenser: The Politics of Reading (1983) and
The Allegory of Female Authority: Christine de
Pizan's Cite des Dames (1991). 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
has just completed a book on incest and female agency
in the Renaissance. She also is at work on two other
projects: female political authority in the sixteenth
century, and slavery in the Renaissance epic.
- Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications (More Publications)
- Quilligan, M, "Theodor De Bry's voyages to the new and old worlds". Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 41:1 (December, 2011): 1-12. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Quilligan, M, "The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture". Modern Language Quarterly 72:2 (June, 2011): 259-262. [doi]
- "Margaret Hannay, Mary Wroth". Renaissance Quarterly (2011). [abs]
- "Bruce R. Smith, The Key of Green". Modern Philology (2011). [abs]
- Quilligan, M, "Review of Bruce R. Smith's The Key of Green". Modern Philology (2011). [abs]
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