Margaret Maurer (Chair)

Professor of English (1974)
Director, Division of University Studies (1984-87)

Degrees:

BA Seton Hall College 1969, PhD Cornell University 1973

Teaching Specialties:

Shakespeare, 16th and 17th century English literature, literary biography

Research Interests:

Shakespeare, 16th and early 17th century English literature, patronage (Lucy Russell, wife of the third Earl of Bedford), invention of printing, editing and transmission of English Renaissance texts

Publications:

"The Rowe Editions of 1709/1714 and 3.1 of The Taming of the Shrew" in Reading Readings: Essays on Shakespeare Editing in the Eighteenth Century (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,1998); "Facing the Music in Arden: "'Twas I, but 'Tis Not I"in As You Like It from 1600 to the Present (Garland,1997); "Figure, Place, and the End of The Two Gentlemen of Verona" in Texts and Pretexts in the English Renaissance (Style, 23, 1989); "Reading Ben Jonson's Queens" in Seeking the Woman in Late Medieval and Renaissance Writing:Essays in Feminist Contextual Criticism (University of Tennessee Press, 1989); "The Poetical Familiarity of John Donne's Letters" in The Forma of Power in the English Renaissance (Pilgrim Books, 1982); "The Circular Argument of Donne's 'La Corona'" (Studies in English Literature, 22, 1982); "The Real Presence of Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford, and the Terms of John Donne's 'Honour Is So Sublime Perfection'" (ELH, 47,1980); "Samuel Daniel's Poetical Epistles, Especially Those to Sir Thomas Egerton and Lucy, Countess of Bedford" (Studies in Philogy, 74, 1977); "John Donne's Verse Letters" (Modern Language Quarterly, 37 1976)

Distinctions:

Resident Scholar, Folger Shakespeare Library NEH Teaching Shakespeare Institute, 1998 and 1996; NEH Summer Institute, Center for Renaissance Shakespearean Staging, 1995; NEH Summer Seminar, "Renaissance Self-fashioning,"1978; Woodrow Wilson Designate, NDEA-HSS Fellow, Cornell University 1969-1973

International Affiliations and Experience:

Director, Colgate London English Study Group1997,1987, 1982

English Department Faculty