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Background:
Professor Brown is a specialist
in Shakespeare studies and Renaissance literature,
with a focus on popular culture and women's studies.
She holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) from Columbia
University (1998). Her book Better
a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama and the Culture
of Jest in Early Modern England was published
by Cornell in 2003. With Peter Parolin, she co-edited
Women Players in England 1500-1660 (Ashgate,
2005).
In 2005 and 2006 she co-organized "Theater
Without Borders" in
Istanbul, an international meeting of scholars
of comparative drama of the Renaissance. In 2005-06
she served as Director of the UConn in London Program.
In 2010-11 Prof. Brown received an NEH Fellowship and Huntington Library grant for her book project, Extravagant Stranger: The Diva in Shakespeare.
At present she is co-editing (with
Jean E. Howard) As You Like
It: Texts and Contexts for Bedford/St Martin's.
Expertise:
Shakespeare studies; Renaissance Literature; early
modern gender studies; early popular culture and
drama
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