Jennifer
A. Munroe, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Education
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, 2004
- M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, 2000
- B.A., University of Wyoming, 1997
Areas of Interest
- Early modern English literature, especially women writers
- Literature and the Environment
- Literature and Science
- Film Studies (especially gender and film)
Book
Book in progress that considers how various forms of writing (both literary and practical) contributed to the disenfranchisement of women from bodies of knowledge, even though women were ready practitioners of such knowledge in everyday ways.
Another book in progress, a co-edited anthology, that looks at various ways that, throughout the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries, women sought empowerment through a connection to “Flora's Court.”
Selected Publications and Presentations
Books
Making Gardens of Their Own: Gardening Manuals For Women, 1500-1750. Series III. Early Englishwomen in Print. Ashgate Press. Forthcoming, November 2007.
Gender and the Garden in Early Modern English Literature. Ashgate Press. Forthcoming, 2008.
Articles
"Gender, Class, and the Art of Gardening." Prose Studies. Forthcoming, Fall 2006.
(with Kirk Melnikoff) "Seasoning the Sonnet, Playing Poets: The Sonnet Slam as Extrapedagogical Event." Pedagogy. Forthcoming, Fall 2006.
"'In this strang labourinth how shall I turne?': Gardening, Needlework, and Writing in Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. (24. 1: 35-55. Spring, 2005).
Presentations
“Flora's Court.” Seminar Leader. Shakespeare Association of America. Dallas, TX. March, 2008.
“Making Their Mark: Manuscript Writing and Reconstructing a History of Women's Gardening.” Chicago, IL. February, 2007
“He Said, She Said: Early Modern Women's Gardening Communities and the Sexual Politics of the Domestic Sphere.” Still Kissing the Rod, Oxford, UK, July, 2005
A Garden-Space for Women in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (‘Hail, God, King of the Jews').” Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge, UK, April, 2005
“'Planting English' and Cultivating the Gentleman: Spenser's Gardens.” SCMLA, New Orleans, LA October, 2004 Courses Taught
Undergraduate
- ENGL 3100: Approaches to Literature
- ENGL 3301: Survey of British Literature I
- ENGL 3050: Gender and Film
- ENGL 4050: Sex and the Silver Screen
- ENGL 4050: Gender and Shakespeare
- ENGL 4050: 17th Century British Literature
- ENGL 4114: Milton
Graduate:
- ENGL 5050: Sex and the Silver Screen
- ENGL 5050: Gender and Shakespeare
- ENGL 5050: 17th Century British Literature
- ENGL 5114: Milton
- ENGL 6070: Early Modern Women Writers
- ENGL 6101: Introduction to Graduate Studies
Professional Appointments
Faculty Appointment
UNC Charlotte since 2004
External Appointment
Founding Member, Shakespeare in Action: Center for the Study of Performance and Culture, UNC-Charlotte, 2007-present. |
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