Richelle Munkhoff

Senior Instructor, English
Office: Denison 146
Telephone: 303-735-1703
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; early American literature; world literature; general surveys of British and American literatures; interdisciplinary humanities courses

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991
B.A., University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1989

Publications

Essay

“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

Privy Places: Women and Matters of Interpretation in Early Modern England (book)

Searchers of the Dead: Women and the Bills of Mortality, 1500-1850 (book)

“Sober Ancient Women and the Reproduction of Ideology in Romeo and Juliet” (article)