Areas of Specialization

Shakespeare, Renaissance poetry and poetics, linguistics and literature, "queer philology," premodern sexualities, Renaissance literature and science, the prehistory of the disciplines, theory and practice of interdisciplinarity

Books

Blank, Paula. Shakespeare and the Mismeasure of Man. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006.

Blank, Paula. Broken English: Dialects and Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Background

B.A., Wesleyan University; A.M. and Ph.D, Harvard University