Alicia Meyer

(she/her/hers)

Fisher-Bennett Hall 213

215-898-0444

Alicia Meyer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English with a certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. She received her BA and MA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her dissertation project examines representations of poor women and maidservants in the early modern Atlantic. Alicia is also the Graduate Associate for Gender, Sexuality, and Women Studies at UPenn for 2019-2020.

Interests

Early Modern Literature Comparative Race and Empire Studies Drama and Theatre Gender and Sexuality Studies History of Material Texts

Articles and Book Chapters

"Portrait of a Young African Woman" in The Collation: Research and Exploration at the Folger Guest Author (2019)

"Entries for A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen, Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650" in A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen, Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650 (2016)

"Women and Political Power in Early Modern Europe" in Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe with Carole Levin (2013)

Awards

2019 Kislak Dissertation Fellowship

News & Events

2019/04/24

Reading Group Coordinators Workshop

2018/09/04

Alice Paul Women’s Center: Graduate Research Colloquium

2018/04/25

Alicia Meyer awarded UCLA Clark Library/Center Predoctoral Fellowship for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies

2017/11/09

The Witch of Edmonton (WiP)

Courses Taught

summer 2019

ENGL 101.900 Shakespeare

spring 2019

ENGL 200.305 Gender, Sex, Shakespeare