Faculty Directory
Linda Woodbridge
Josephine Berry Weiss Chair in the Humanities
Contact:
33 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-863-2343
lxw18@psu.edu
Office Hours:
Monday/Tuesday 1-3 and Wednesday 2-2
Educational History:
Ph.D., M.A., B.A. University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests:
English Renaissance literature; Renaissance women as subjects and authors of literature; orality and literacy; folklore; economic criticism; revenge; pastoral
Awards:
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2008-9
Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal, 2004
George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching, Penn State, 2002
Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Alberta, 1994
McCalla Professor, University of Alberta
Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Alberta, 1993
AWArd: first annual award given by the Academic Women's Association at the University of Alberta for lifetime contributions to the betterment of women on campus, 1992
Major Publications:
Women, Violence, and the English Renaissance: Essays Honoring Paul Jorgensen . Co-ed. with Sharon Beehler. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University Press, 2003.
Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism . Palgrave/St. Martin's, 2003.
Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature (University of Illinois Press, 2001)
The Scythe of Saturn: Shakespeare and Magical Thinking (University of Illinois Press, 1994)
True Rites and Maimed Rites, Ritual and Anti-Ritual in Shakespeare and His Age (University of Illinois Press, 1992)
Shakespeare, A Selective Bibliography of Modern Criticism (Locust Hill Press, 1988)
Women and the English Renaissance: Literature and the Nature of Womankind, 1540 to 1620 (University of Illinois Press, 1984)
Other Publications:
co-edited special issue of PMLA, Imagining History, 2003
articles in journals including Shakespeare Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance, PMLA, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Renaissance Quarterly, Southern Review, Mosaic, English Studies in Canada, American Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, The Spenser Review, University of Toronto Quarterly, Modern Philology, Shakespeare Studies, Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Book in Progress:
English Revenge Drama: Money, Resistance, Equality
National Professional Service:
Member of editorial board of PMLA, 1998-2000
Member of executive of Shakespeare Division of Modern Language Association, 1998-2003, chair 2002
President, Shakespeare Association of America, 1992-93
Served on selection committees for national-competition grants, Canada Council and Folger Shakespeare Library
Served on unit review committees of English departments at the University of British Columbia, the University of Lethbridge, Dalhousie University, and the University of Western Ontario
External assessor of Records of Early English Drama Project, University of Toronto
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