Maureen Quilligan | Scholars@Duke

Maureen Quilligan
R. Florence Brinkley 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 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

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Harvard University 1973
- M.A., University of California at Berkeley 1967
- B.A., University of California at Berkeley 1965
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
Awards & Honors
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - France (Country)
  - United Kingdom (Country)
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Raman, S. 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. : Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2008. Full Text
  - Re-reading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religion and Racial Differences in the European Renaissance. Edited by W Mignolo, MARGARET Greer, and MAUREEN Quilligan. Chicago University Press, 2007. (Edited Book)
  - Quilligan, M. Incest and agency in Elizabeth's England. December 1, 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. (Review) Full Text
  - 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. (Review) Full Text
  - Quilligan, M. "Review of Mary Wroth by Margaret Hannay." Renaissance Quarterly (2011). (Review)
  - Quilligan, M. "Review of Bruce R. Smith's The Key of Green." Modern Philology (2011). (Review)
  - Quilligan, M. "The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture." Modern Language Quarterly 72, no. 2 (January 1, 2011): 259-262. Full Text
  - Quilligan, M. "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): 1422-1423. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Quilligan, M. "Recent studies in the english renaissance." Sel Studies in English Literature 43, no. 1 (December 1, 2003): 233-295.
  - Quilligan, M. "Review of K. Schwarz’s Amazon Love." Shakespeare Studies (2003). (Review)
  - Quilligan, M. "Recent studies in the English Renaissance (With bibliography)." STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 43, no. 1 (2003): 233-295. Full Text Link to Item
  - Quilligan, M. "Renaissance materialities: Introduction." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 32, no. 3 (September 1, 2002): 427-431. Full Text
  - Quilligan, M. "Elizabeth’s Embroidery." Shakespeare Studies 29 (2001): 208-215.
  - 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. Full Text
  - Quilligan, M. "Author, Author." Yale Review (1993).
  - Quilligan, M. "Review of Gamani Salgado’s The Elizabethan Underworld." New York Times Book Review (1993). (Review)
  - 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). (Review)
  - Quilligan, M. "Review of Antonia Fraser’s The Warrior Queens." Washington Post (1989). (Review)
  - Quilligan, M. "Review of The History of Private Life, vol. III." Edited by R Chartier. New York Times Book Review (1989). (Review)
  - 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): 222-248. Link to Item
  - 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). (Review)
  - Quilligan, M. "Review of Antonia Fraser’s The Weaker Vessel." The Nation (1985). (Review)
  - Quilligan, M. "Review of Tirant Lo Blanc." The Nation (1985). (Review)
  - Quilligan, M. "Review of Judith C. Brown’s Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy." (1985). (Review)
  - Quilligan, M. "Review of Jasper Ridley’s Henry VIII." New York Times (1985). (Review)
  - Quilligan, M. "Review of The Paradise of Women: Writing Englishwomen of the Renaissance." Edited by B Travitsky. Modern Language Notes (1983). (Review)
  - 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). (Review)
  - Quiligan, M. "Langland's Literal Allegory." Essays in Criticism XXVIII, no. 2 (January 1978): 95-111. Full Text
  - Quilligan, M. "Review of Gay Clifford’s The Transformations of Allegory." Poetics Today Quarterly (1978). (Review)
  - 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. Link to Item
- Book Sections
  - Quilligan, M. "Allegory and Female Authority." In Thinking Allegory Otherwise, edited by B Machovsky. Stanford University Press, 2009.
  - Quilligan, M. "Incest and Agency: the Case of Elizabeth I." In Generation and Degeneration, edited by K Brownlee and V 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 MD Grazia, M Quilligan, and P 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 JK Turner. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.
  - Quilligan, M. "Christine de Pizan and Canon Formation." In Displacements: Woman Tradition Literatures in French, edited by NK Miller and J 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 E Harvey and K 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 AM Haselkorn and BS Travitsky, 311-25. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 1990.
  - Quilligan, M. "Sidney and His Queen." In The Historical Renaissance, edited by R Strier and H 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 G Teskey and G 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 P Hawkins and A 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 Pearce. Twayne, 1981.
- Other Articles
  - Quilligan, M. "Renaissance Materialities." JMEMS (September 2002).
  - Quilligan, , Grazia, MD, and Stallybrass, P. "Object and Subject: Reconstructing Renaissance Culture." (1995).
  - Quilligan, M, Ferguson, M, and kers, NV. "Rewriting the Renaissance: Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe." (1986).
Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
Presentations & Appearances
Service to the Profession
- Folger Shakespeare Institute Duke Rep. 2009 - 2010 2009 - 2010

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Duke Appointment History

Awards & Honors

Global Scholarship

Expertise

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Other Articles

Presentations & Appearances

Service to the Profession