Michelle Parkinson
(2005) Assistant Professor
264KFA
715-425-3850
email: michelle.parkinson@uwrf.edu
B.A. and M.A., Utah State University
Ph.D., English Literature, Purdue University
Areas of Specialization:
English Renaissance Literature, Early Modern Cultural Studies, Shakespeare,
Literary Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Publications:
"La Jupe Blanch: (Ad)dressing Elizabeth I".
Prose Studies 28 (2006): 168-83.
Rev. of Shakespear's Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance,
by Pascale Aebischer.The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of
Early Modern Studies 37 (2006): 617-18.
Rev. of Words That Count: Early Modern Authorship: Essays in Honor
of MacDonald P. Jackson, Edited by Brian Boyd. The Sixteenth Century
Journal of Early Modern Studies 37 (2006): 617-18.
Autobiographical Information:
Michelle Parkinson has published critical works in Prose Studies
and The Sixteenth Century Journal. Her creative work has appeared
in The Sycamore Review and Utah State University Magazine.
Her dissertation focused on sexuality politics in early modern England
through readings of the letters and speeches of Elizabeth I and the
plays of John Lyly and Christopher Marlowe. She has attended numerous
conferences in the United States and the U. K. Recently, she travelled
to Scotland as an invited speaker at the University of Strathclyde in
Glasgow to deliver a talk on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Her
current research centers on the political, religious, social and legal
rhetoric surrounding the phenomenon of execution in early modern England.
She teaches Shakespeare, Introduction to Literary Studies, British Liturature
Survey I, Shakespeare on Film and Human Issues in Liturature.
