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Cristina León Alfar

Professor, English Literature
Hunter College, CUNY

Cristina León Alfar is Professor of Shakespeare, Early Modern English drama, and Women's and Gender Studies at Hunter College, CUNY.

Subjects: Gender & Intersectionality Studies, Literature, Theater

Biography

Cristina León Alfar is the author of Fantasies of Female Evil: The Dynamics of Gender and Power in Shakespearean Tragedy (Delaware 2003).  Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal (Routledge 2017) examines a structure of accusation and defense that unravels the authority of husbands to make and unmake wives. In 2021 Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne: Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies, edited with Emily G. Sherwood was published by Routledge. The collection documents Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce, its resolution, and legal disputes. She is co-editor, with Helen Ostovich, of the series "Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Gender, Performance, and Material Culture" for MIP. Currently, Alfar is at work on women parrhesiasts in early modern English drama.

Education

    University of Washington, PhD, 1997

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

    Early Modern English drama, particularly Shakespeare; women's and gender studies; feminist ethics, parrhesia; the intersections between literature, culture, gender, sexuality, marriage law, and politics.

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Books

Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne - 1st Edition book cover
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Featured Title - Women and Shakespeare's Cuckoldry Plays - 1st Edition book cover

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"Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Gender, Performance, and Material Culture"

By: Cristina León Alfar
Subjects: Gender & Intersectionality Studies, Literature, Theater, Theatre & Performance Studies

Cristina León Alfar is co-editor with Helen Ostovich of the series "Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Gender, Performance, and Material Culture" for Medieval Institute Publications.  This series provides a forum for monographs and essay collections that investigate the material culture, broadly conceived, of theatre and performance in England from the late Tudor to the pre-Restoration Stuart periods (c. 1550–1650).  Contact Tyler Cloherty to submit your proposal, [email protected].

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