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Contact Information:
459 Bartlett Hall
UMass
Amherst, MA 0l003
p: 413-545-5511
f: 413-545-3880
janed@english.umass.edu
Last Modified: Sept.. 2006 |
Assistant Professor
Jane Hwang Degenhardt received her B.A. from Hamilton College and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and teaching interests include Shakespeare, non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama, gender and race studies, Asian American literature, and African American literature.
Professor Degenhardt has articles published or forthcoming in ELH , Modern Fiction Studies , and the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies . She is currently completing a book entitled Muslim Seductions and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage . Her work focuses on how dramatic depictions of Islamic conversion engaged Reformation controversies about the nature of religious faith—whether it was materially manifested or purely spiritual, and whether it could be embodied or not—and pressured certain Catholic/Protestant distinctions to collapse. She is also interested in how playwrights such as Philip Massinger, John Fletcher, Thomas Kyd, John Webster, Thomas Dekker and Shakespeare imagined conquest and conversion by refiguring older conventions from medieval romance and Catholic saints' tales.
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