Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Harvard University 1973
  • M.A., University of California at Berkeley 1967
  • B.A., University of California at Berkeley 1965
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2000 - 2015
  • Professor of Theater Studies, Theater Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2014
  • Chair, Department of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2000 - 2005
• Recognition
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  Awards & Honors

  • ACLS judge. Unknown. February 2008
  • ACLS Fellows (ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships and ACLS/New York Public Library Fellowships). American Council of Learned Societies. 1987
  • Fellowship. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1981
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • France (Country) 
    • United Kingdom (Country) 
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Raman, Shankar. Margaret R. Greer, Walter D. Mignolo, and Maureen Quilligan, eds. Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. viii + 478 pp. index. illus. bibl. $25. ISBN: 978–0–226–30722–0.. Vol. 61. Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2008. https://doi.org/10.1353/ren.0.0340.
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    • Mignolo, W., M. A. R. G. A. R. E. T. Greer, and M. A. U. R. E. E. N. Quilligan, eds. Re-reading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religion and Racial Differences in the European Renaissance. Chicago University Press, 2007.
    • Quilligan, M. Incest and agency in Elizabeth's England, 2005.
    • Quilligan, M. The Allegory of Female Authority : Christine de Pizan’s Cite des Dames. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1991.
    • Quilligan, M. Milton’s Spenser: The Politics of Reading. Cornell UP, 1983.
    • Quilligan, M. The Language of Allegory: Defining the Genre. Cornell UP, 1979.

  • Academic Articles

    • Quilligan, M. “Theodor De Bry's voyages to the new and old worlds.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 41, no. 1 (December 1, 2011): 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2010-010.
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    • Quilligan, M. “Theodor De Bry's voyages to the new and old worlds.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 41, no. 1 (December 1, 2011): 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-2010-010.
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    • Quilligan, M. “Review of Mary Wroth by Margaret Hannay.” Renaissance Quarterly, 2011.
    • Quilligan, M. “Review of Bruce R. Smith's The Key of Green.” Modern Philology, 2011.
    • Quilligan, M. “The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture.” Modern Language Quarterly 72, no. 2 (January 1, 2011): 259–62. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-1161387.
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    • Quilligan, Maureen. “Margaret P. Hannay. Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. xxxiv + 363 pp. index. illus. chron. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6053–8..” Renaissance Quarterly 63, no. 4 (2010): 1422–23. https://doi.org/10.1086/658617.
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    • Quilligan, M. “Recent studies in the english renaissance.” Sel  Studies in English Literature 43, no. 1 (December 1, 2003): 233–95.
    • Quilligan, M. “Review of K. Schwarz’s Amazon Love.” Shakespeare Studies, 2003.
    • Quilligan, Maureen. “Recent Studies in the English Renaissance.” Sel Studies in English Literature 1500 1900 43, no. 1 (2003): 233–85. https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2003.0009.
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    • Quilligan, M. “Renaissance materialities: Introduction.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 32, no. 3 (September 1, 2002): 427–31. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-32-3-427.
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    • Quilligan, M. “Elizabeth’s Embroidery.” Shakespeare Studies 29 (2001): 208–15.
    • Quilligan, M. “Spenser and Slavery.” Edited by I. Baucom. South Atlantic Quarterly, 2001.
    • Quilligan, M. “On the Renaissance Epic: Spenser and Slavery.” South Atlantic Quarterly 100, no. 1 (January 1, 2001): 15–39. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-100-1-15.
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    • Quilligan, M. “Author, Author.” Yale Review, 1993.
    • Quilligan, M. “Review of Gamani Salgado’s The Elizabethan Underworld.” New York Times Book Review, 1993.
    • Quilligan, M. “Translating Dismemberment: Christine de Pizan and Boccaccio.” Studi Sul Boccaccio, 1991.
    • Quilligan, M. “Christine de Pizan: Interventions.” Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Special Issue Edited by Ruth Barrie Strauss, 1991.
    • Quilligan, M. “Review of Laurie Finke and Martin Shichtman’s Medieval Text and Contemporary Readers.” Speculum, 1989.
    • Quilligan, M. “Review of Antonia Fraser’s The Warrior Queens.” Washington Post, 1989.
    • Quilligan, M. “Review of The History of Private Life, vol. III.” Edited by Roger Chartier. New York Times Book Review, 1989.
    • QUILLIGAN, M. “Allegory and the Textual Body: Female Authority in Christine de Pizan's 'Livre de le Cite des Dames'.” Romanic Review 79, no. 1 (January 1988): 222–48.
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    • Quilligan, M. “The Comedy of Female Authority in The Faerie Queene.” Elr, 1988, 427–41.
    • Quilligan, M. “The Difference of Feminist Biography.” Yale Review, 1988, 52–73.
    • Quilligan, M. “Review of Patricia Parker’s Literary Fat Ladies: Rhetoric Gender Property.” Shakespeare Quarterly, 1988.
    • Quilligan, M. “Review of Antonia Fraser’s The Weaker Vessel.” The Nation, 1985.
    • Quilligan, M. “Review of Tirant Lo Blanc.” The Nation, 1985.
    • Quilligan, M. “Review of Judith C. Brown’s Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy,” 1985.
    • Quilligan, M. “Review of Jasper Ridley’s Henry VIII.” New York Times, 1985.
    • Quilligan, M. “Review of The Paradise of Women: Writing Englishwomen of the Renaissance.” Edited by Betty Travitsky. Modern Language Notes, 1983.
    • Quilligan, M. “Review of Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies.” Trans. E.J. Richards, New York Times Book Review, 1982.
    • Quiligan, M. “Langland's Literal Allegory.” Essays in Criticism XXVIII, no. 2 (January 1978): 95–111. https://doi.org/10.1093/eic/XXVIII.2.95.
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    • Quilligan, M. “Review of Gay Clifford’s The Transformations of Allegory.” Poetics Today Quarterly, 1978.
    • Quilligan, M. “Words and Sex: the Language of Allegory in the De planctu naturae, Le Roman de la Rose, and Book III of the Faerie Queene.” Allegorica 2, no. 1 (1977): 195–216.
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  • Book Sections

    • Quilligan, M. “Allegory and Female Authority.” In Thinking Allegory Otherwise, edited by Brenda Machovsky. Stanford University Press, 2009.
    • Quilligan, M. “Incest and Agency: the Case of Elizabeth I.” In Generation and Degeneration, edited by Kevin Brownlee and Valeria Finucci. Duke UP, 2003.
    • Quilligan, M. “Freedom, Service, and the Trade in Slaves: The Problem of Labor in Paradise Lost.” In Object and Subject: Reconstructing Renaissance Culture, edited by Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, and Peter Stallybrass. Cambridge UP, 1995.
    • Quilligan, M. “The Language of the Body: The Taming of the Shrew and The Tragedy of Mariam.” In Renaissance Sexuality, edited by James K. Turner. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.
    • Quilligan, M. “Christine de Pizan and Canon Formation.” In Displacements: Woman Tradition Literatures in French, edited by Nancy K. Miller and Joan DeJean, 126–43. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins P, 1991.
    • Quilligan, M. “The Constant Subject: Instability and Authority in Wroth’s Urania Poems.” In Soliciting Interpretation: Literary Theory and Seventeenth-Century English Poetry, edited by Elizabeth Harvey and Katharine Maus, 273–306. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.
    • Quilligan, M. “Feminine Endings: The Sexual Politics of Sidney’s and Spenser’s Rhyming.” In The Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the Canon, edited by Anne M. Haselkorn and Betty S. Travitsky, 311–25. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 1990.
    • Quilligan, M. “Sidney and His Queen.” In The Historical Renaissance, edited by Richard Strier and Heather Dubrow, 171–96. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1989.
    • Quilligan, M. “The Anthropology of Intertextuality: Mary Wroth and the Family Romance.” In Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance, edited by Gordon Teskey and George Logan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1989.
    • Quilligan, M. “Milton’s Spenser: The Inheritance of Ineffability.” In The Ineffable Word: From Dante to Eliot, edited by Peter Hawkins and Ann Schotter. A.M.S. Press, U of California P, 1985.
    • Quilligan, M. “Thomas Pynchon and the Language of Allegory.” In Thomas Pynchon, Critical Essays, edited by M. Pearce. Twayne, 1981.

  • Other Articles

    • Quilligan, M. “Renaissance Materialities.” Duke UP, September 2002.
    • Quilligan, M., Margreta de Grazia, and Peter Stallybrass. “Object and Subject: Reconstructing Renaissance Culture.” Cambridge UP, 1995.
    • Quilligan, M., M. Ferguson, and N Vic kers. “Rewriting the Renaissance: Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe.” University of Chicago Press, 1986.
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Milton's Comus and the Pedagogy of the Oppressed. May 31, 2012  2012
  • Much Ado About Nothing. October 1, 2009  2009
  • Theodor de Bry's America: chairing and response. MLA. December 23, 2008  2008
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  Service to the Profession

  • Folger Shakespeare Institute Duke Rep. 2009 - 2010  2009 - 2010

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