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Jean Feerick

Assistant Professor of English

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 322
Phone: (401) 863-3735

Courses '09-'10
  Sem I:
  •   ENGL1910A - S01: Dreamworlds: Utopia from Plato to the Present -- CRN14951
  •   ENGL2360H - S01: Race and Place in Renaissance Literature -- CRN14953
  Sem II:
  •  ENGL 0400A - S01: Introduction to Shakespeare -- CRN 21022
  •  ENGL 1360O - S01: The Ties that Bind: Domestic Friction and Renaissance Drama -- CRN 24964

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Degrees
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2002
M.Phil. University of Oxford, 1992
B.A. Georgetown University, 1990

Research Interests
16th and 17th-century English Literatures and Cultures; Colonial Discourse; Transatlantic literary studies. Also theories of race and nation in the 16th and 17th centuries; science and literature; early modern travel literature.

Professional Accomplishments
Professor Feerick's book Strangers in Blood: Relocating Race in Renaissance Literature, forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press, reads colonial narratives of degeneration as evidence of shifting racial paradigms in the period.   She has published articles based on this research in English Literary Renaissance (2002), Early American Studies (2003), and Renaissance Drama (2006). A related essay on botany and race has appeared in a special issue of South Central Review (2009) on "Shakespeare and Science." Feerick is now at work on a collection of essays on the topic of "Shakespeare at the Limits of the Human," as well as a book on tragicomedy, romance, and Baconian science.