Maureen Quilligan
R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor Emerita of English
Maureen Quilligan has as a primary field of
interest in the Renaissance, with special
attention to women and literature. She has
published four books: The Language of
Allegory: Defining the Genre
(1979) Milton's
Spenser: The Politics of Reading
(1983),
The Allegory of Female Authority: Christine de
Pizan's Cite des Dames
(1991) and Incest and
Agency in Elizabeth's England
(2005). She has also
co-edited three volumes of essays titled
Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses
of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe
(1986) and Subject and Object in
Renaissance Culture
(1996) and Rereading the Black Legend: the Discourses of Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires (2008). Among other
fellowships she has held a Guggenheim and
an ACLS and was awarded the Sidonie
Clauss Prize for Distinguished Teaching in
the Humanities at Yale (1983) as well as the
Undergraduate Advisory Board Teaching Prize
at the University of Pennsylvania (1997). She is at work
on two current
projects: female political authority in the sixteenth
century, and slavery in the Renaissance epic.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor Emerita of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015
- Professor Emerita of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015
Contact Information
- 320 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
- Duke Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
-
mquillig@duke.edu
(919) 681-2149
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