 Assistant Professor of EnglishOffice: Denison 235 Telephone: 303-492-6759 E-mail: Richelle.Munkhoff@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Early modern English literature and culture; Shakespeare; Spenser; women writers 1350-1750; social history of science and medicine
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991
B.A., University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1989
Publications
Essays
“God’s Arithmetick: Women and the Reckoning of Plague in Early Modern London,” The Rhetoric of Bodily Disease and Health: Medieval and Early Modern Essays, ed. Jennifer Vaught, forthcoming 2009
"‘The Rack Dislimns’: Professing in the Aftermath of Katrina.” Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, forthcoming 2009
“Searchers of the Dead: Authority, Marginality, and the Interpretation of Plague in England, 1574-1665.” Gender & History 11.1 (1999): 1-29
Selected honors and awards
Newcomb Alumnae Association Award for Excellence in Teaching, Tulane University, 2004
Current projects
Parish Poetics: Reading, Space, and Women in Early Modern England (book)
Searchers of the Dead: Women and the Bills of Mortality, 1500-1850 (book)
“Yielding Her Body to the Hands of Death: Elizabeth and Violations of Mortality in 1603,” Plague, Crisis, and Creativity in Early Modern England, ed. Rebecca Totaro and Margaret Healy (book chapter)
“Circulating Romance: Parish, Theater, and Imaginative Space in Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale" (article)
"Nightmares of Disease: Plague, Bureaucracy, and Tragedy in Romeo and Juliet" (article)