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Dr. Miriam Jacobson
Assistant Professor of English

Education

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2005
AB, Brown University, 1998

Area(s) of Specialty

Early Modern Poetry and Poetics
History of Material Texts
English-Ottoman Exchanges
Classical Antiquity in Early Modern England

Curriculum Vitae

PDF version, MS Word 2003 version

Contact Information

Office: C215Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-4851
Email

Courses Taught at WFU

ENG 111 Feminist Fairy Tales
ENG 165 British Literature 1350-1800
ENG 190 The Epic
ENG 325 Renaissance Poetry, Writing, Materiality
ENG 323 Mediterranean Shakespeare
ENG 323 Shakespeare's Britain
ENG 326 Imagining Antiquity
ENG 702 Renaissance Material Culture
FYS 100 Metamorphoses

Selected Publications

"The Elizabethan Cipher in Shakespeare's Lucrece," Studies in Philology 107.3: Summer 2010 (forthcoming)

" 'Sweets Compacted': Posies and the Poems of George Herbert," in Christopher Hodgkins, ed., George Herber's Travels, U of Delaware P, 2009, forthcoming.

“Grafting and Graffiti in Wroth’s Urania,” with Vin Nardizzi, in Jennifer Munroe and Rebecca Laroche eds., In Dialogue With Nature: Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity, Susquehanna UP, forthcoming.

Review of "Silent Rhetoric," "Dumb Eloquence": The Rhetoric of Silence in Early Modern England, for Renaissance Quarterly, forthcoming

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