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Associate Professor and Head of English; Cross-Appointed Faculty, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies Program

English

Email Address: j_feathe@uncg.edu

Phone: 336.334.5379

Education

Ph.D., Department of English, Brown University, May 2006

M.A., Department of English, Brown University, May 2002

B.A., cum laude, Department of English, Columbia University, May 1998

Courses Taught

  • ENG 211: Major British Authors: Medieval to Neo-Classical 
  • ENG 272: Big Questions in Diversity and Equity
  • ENG 331: Women and Literature.
  • ENG 339: Shakespeare’s Early Plays and Sonnets
  • ENG 340: Shakespeare’s Later Plays
  • ENG 540: Shakespeare: Research Problems and Methods (Grad/Undergrad Course)
  • ENG 642: Topics in Pre-1800 Literature: Early Modern Emotions
  • ENG 675: Scholarly and Critical Writing (co-taught and developed with Dr. Heather Adams)
  • ENG 706/WGS 706: Topics in Gender and Sexuality: Queer Renaissance 
  • ENG 710: Studies in Renaissance Literature: Early Modern Mediterranean
  • ENG 710: Studies in Renaissance Literature: Spenser’s Faerie Queene 
  • ENG 712: Studies in the Sixteenth Century: Early Modern Embodiment
  • ENG 714: Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespearean Masculinities

Research

Early Modern Literature; Gender Studies; Theories of Trauma and Violence; Masculinity; Queer Theory; Public Humanities