Dr. Nicole A. Jacobs

Upcoming Courses

(subject to change)

Fall 2016

ENGL 230-01 Masterworks of British Literature through the 18th Century
ENGL 230-02 Masterworks of British Literature through the 18th Century
WGS 201-01 Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies in the United States

Education

Ph.D.  English Literature, Pennsylvania State University, 2009
M.A.   English Literature, University of Miami, 2004
B.A.    English Literature and Print Journalism, University of Miami, 2002 (double major)

Teaching and Research Interests

17th Century Transatlantic Literature
John Milton
Shakespeare
Early Modern Women Writers
Feminist Theory

Selected Publications

John Milton's Beehive, from Polemic to Epic," Studies in Philology 112.4 (2015): 798-816.

"Bees: The Shakespearean Hive and the Virtues of Honey," The Shakespearean International Yearbook, special edition Shakespeare and the Human, ed. Tiffany Jo Werth. 15 (2015): 101-21.

"Lady Hester Pulter's The Unfortunate Florinda and the Conventions of Sexual Violence," Appositions: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture. 7 (2014).

"Robbing His Captive Shepherdess: Princess Elizabeth, John Milton, and the Memory of Charles I in the Eikon Basilike and Eikonoklastes." Criticism 54.2 (2012): 227-55.

"Dowriche, Anne." Blackwell Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. Gen. Ed. Garrett Sulllivan and Alan Stewarrt, 3 vols. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). 289-290.

"Stafford, Dorothy." Blackwell Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. Gen. Ed. Garrett Sullivan and Alan Steward, 3 vols. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). 920-921.