FEATURED AUTHOR
Cristina León Alfar
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 the editor of the series "Late Tudor and Stuart Drama" for MIP, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. Currently, Alfar is at work on women parrhesiasts in early modern English drama.Education
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University of Washington, PhD, 1997
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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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.
Websites
Academia.edu
Department Profile Page
Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Gender, Performance, and Material Culture
MLA-Humanities Commons
Books
News
"Late Tudor and Stuart Drama"
By: Cristina León Alfar
Subjects: Gender & Intersectionality Studies, Literature, Theater, Theatre & Performance Studies
Cristina León Alfar is the editor of the series "Late Tudor and
Stuart Drama" for Medieval Institute Publications (Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo).
https://wmich.edu/medievalpublications/books/late-tudor-stuart-drama
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