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Phyllis Rackin (Ph.D., University of Illinois, English, 1962) is Professor Emerita of English. She is a past President of the Shakespeare Association of America and the author of numerous articles on Shakespeare and literary theory and of four books, Shakespeare's Tragedies, Stages of History: Shakespeare's English Chronicles, Shakespeare and Women, and, with Jean E. Howard, of Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories. A recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, she has been associated with the BFS program for over thirty years.
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Doctoral Dissertations Chaired
2007
Jennifer Higginbotham
"Fair Maids and Golden Girls: Early Modern Girlhood and the Production of Femininity"
Lisa Martinez-Lajous
"Playing for Profit: The Legitimacy of Gaming and the Early Modern Theater"
2004
Erika T. Lin
"Performance Matters: Culture and Theatrical Signification in the Early English Public Playhouse"
1998
Julie Anne Crawford
""Lessons and Schdynes for Us": Monsters as Signs in Early Modern Popular Literature"
William G. Fisher
"Prosthetic Gods: Subject/Object in Early Modern England"
1996
James P. Seager
"'Why Bastard? Wherefore Base?' Representing Bastardy in Early Modern England"
Sarah Werner
"Act Like a Feminist: Women and Performance at the Royal Shakespeare Company"
1995
Lisa A. Freeman
"Theatrical Imaginings: Genre, Character, and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage"
Rachana Sachdev
"'That Naked Sex': Race and the Immigration of Englishwomen to the American Colonies in 17th Century English Drama"
1991
Jean Peterson
"This is not the Women's Age: Changing Representations of Gender in 17th Century English Drama"
1989
Gregory W. Bredbeck
"The Uses of Ganymede from Marlowe to Milton: Homoeroticism in Renaissance Thought and Literature"
1983
Shefali Balsari
"A Study of The Taming of the Shrew"