Amelia
Zurcher
Associate Professor
My teaching and scholarship focus on Renaissance and seventeenth century British literature. I am particularly interested in genre, historiography, narrative, and gender.
My book Seventeenth-Century English Romance: Allegory, Ethics, and Politics was published by Palgrave in 2007. I edited Judith Man's Epitome of the Historie of Faire Argenis and Polyarchus for the Early Modern Englishwoman Series from Ashgate Press, and have written articles on pastoral in Mary Wroth's Urania (SEL), history and stoicism in Shakespeare's romances (ELH), and ethics and the politic subject in seventeenth century prose romance (ELR).
Among other subjects I teach sixteenth and seventeenth century British literature, Shakespeare, studies in genre, and studies in gender and literature. I’ve also offered courses on various aspects of feminism for the Honors Program.
Teaching Fields
- Women's Studies
- Shakespeare
- Renaissance Literature
- Literary Theory
- Feminist Theory
Office
Location & Contact
Office
Hours
SPRING 2008
Tuesday 3:30 - 5:30
Thursday 11:30-12:30
Teaching
Schedule
- SPRING 2008
- 160/1003 TUTH 12:35-1:50
- 210/1001 TUTH 2:00-3:15
Research Interests
Selected Publications
- Seventeenth-Century English Romance: Allegory, Ethics, and Politics. Palgrave, 2007.
- An Epitome of the Historie of Argenis and Poliarchus (1640), by Judith Man. For the series The Early Modern Englishwoman. Ashgate Press, 2003 (editor).
- “Rethinking the Renaissance Image of Virtue: Ethics and the Politic Agent of Early Seventeenth Century Prose Romance.” English Literary Renaissance 35 (2005): 74-101.
- “Untimely Monuments: Stoicism, History, and the Problem of Utility in The Winter’s Tale and Pericles.” English Literary History 71 (2004): 903-27.
Honors/Awards
- Marquette University Teaching Excellence Award, 2008
- Mellon Fellowship, Newberry Library, 2002-3
- Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, 1993-4
- George C. Marshall Scholarship, 1987-9
