Journal Articles

​“Exquisitely Compatible: Blending Feminism and Formalism in the Classroom.” Part of a special issue on “Teaching Early Modern Women Writers Today” edited by Liza Blake. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART) 28.2 (2021): 31-40.

“Risky Business: Con Artists, Speculation, and Inheritance in Early Modern English Drama.” Part of a special issue on “Inheritance Law and Literature” edited by Beth Cortese and Jakob Ladegaard. Law and Literature (Published online 8 April 2021; print publication forthcoming): 1-26. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1535685X.2021.1902637
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“Happy Accidents: Critical Belatedness, Feminist Formalism, and Early Modern Women’s Writing.” Co-authored with Lara Dodds. Criticism 62.2 (2020): 169-93.

• Winner of the Award for Best Article from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender

“Breaking Form in Early Modern Literary Studies.”  Invited essay for the 50th Anniversary issue of English Literary Renaissance. 50.1 (2020): 40-6.

“Judith Shakespeare’s Brother.”  Modern Language Quarterly 80.1 (2019): 51-74.

“The Case for a Feminist Return to Form.”  Co-authored with Lara Dodds.  Forum on “Rethinking Methodologies for Early Modern Women’s Studies.”  Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 13.1 (2018): 82-91. 

“Dramaturgy and the Politics of Space in The Tragedy of Mariam.”  Renaissance Drama 44.1 (2016): 101-22. 
 
“Afterword.”  Special Issue on “Women’s Writing/Women’s Work in Early Modernity.”  Early Modern Studies Journal 6 (2014): 194-202.  <http://www.earlymodernstudiesjournal.org>
 
“A Gentleman May Wander: Inheritance, Travel, and the Prodigal Son on the Jacobean Stage.”  Renaissance Drama 42.1 (2014): 113-37.
 
“Shakespeare’s Sleeping Workers.”  Shakespeare Studies 41 (2013): 148-76. 
 
“Reimagining Paradise: The Politics of Form in Dorothy Calthorpe’s Garden of Eden.”  Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 8 (2013): 181-205.
 
 “Genealogical Counternarratives in the Writings of Mary Carey.”  Modern Philology 109.4 (2012): 440-62.
 
“The Devotional Writings of Dorothy Calthorpe” (co-authored with Julie A. Eckerle).  ANQ 24.1-2 (2011): 89-98.
 
“Recent Studies in Early Modern English Life Writing” (co-authored with Julie A. Eckerle).  English Literary Renaissance 40.1 (2010): 132-62.
 
“Shakespeare and Work.”  Literature Compass 7.3 (2010): 185-94.
 
“Delinquent Pedigrees: Revision, Lineage, and Spatial Rhetoric in The Duchess of Malfi.”  English Literary Renaissance 39.3 (2009): 499-526.
 
“Labors of Love: Women, Marriage, and Service in Twelfth Night and The Compleat Servant-Maid.” Shakespearean International Yearbook 5 (2005): 103-26. 

• Reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism. Vol. 154.  Gale/Cengage Learning, 2014.

 
“Leaning Too Hard Upon the Pen: Suburb Wenches and City Wives in Westward Ho.” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 15 (2003): 224-42.

Book Chapters

“Introduction” (co-authored with Tom Rutter). In The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Perspectives on Culture, Performance, and Identity, ed. Michelle M. Dowd and Tom Rutter. Forthcoming from Bloomsbury/Arden Press, January 2023. 8300 words.

“Untimely Developments: Periodization, Early Modern Women’s Writing, and Literary History.” Invited chapter for The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540-1700, ed. Danielle Clarke, Sarah C.E. Ross, and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press. 6000 words.
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“Introduction: Defining Feminist Formalism” (co-authored with Lara Dodds). In Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women’s Writing: Readings, Conversations, Pedagogies.  University of Nebraska Press, 2022.

“Shakespeare and Genre Studies.”  In The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism, ed. Evelyn Gajowski, 38-50. London: Bloomsbury/Arden Press, 2020.

“So like an old tale”: Staging Inheritance and the Lost Child in Shakespeare’s Romances.” In Staged Normality in Shakespeare’s England, ed. Rory Loughnane and Edel Semple, 173-92.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

“Gender and Genre: Shakespeare’s Comic Women.”  In The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy, ed. Heather Hirschfeld, 328-41.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

“Navigating the Future of Early Modern Women’s Writing: Pedagogy, Feminism, and Literary Theory.”  In Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World, ed. Merry Wiesner-Hanks.  Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018.  261-82. 
 
“Introduction” (co-authored with Ronda Arab and Adam Zucker).  In Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater, ed. Ronda Arab, Michelle M. Dowd, and Adam Zucker.  New York: Routledge, 2015.  1-11.
 
“Women’s Kinship Networks: A Meditation on Creative Genealogies and Historical Labor” (co-authored with Julie A. Eckerle, Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, and Megan Matchinske).  In Mapping Gendered Routes and Spaces in the Early Modern World, ed. Merry Wiesner-Hanks.  Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2015.  229-50. 
 
“Introduction: Adam’s Rib, Eve’s Voice” (co-authored with Thomas Festa).  In Early Modern Women on the Fall: An Anthology, ed. Michelle M. Dowd and Thomas Festa.  Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2012.  1-21. 
 
“‘Order plays the soul’: Anne Clifford, The Temple, and the Spiritual Logic of Housework.”  In George Herbert’s Travels: International Print and Cultural Legacies, ed. Christopher Hodgkins.  Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2011.  59-77. 
 
“Introduction: Working Subjects” (co-authored with Natasha Korda).  In Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama, ed. Michelle M. Dowd and Natasha Korda.  Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2011.  1-16.
 
“Desiring Subjects: Staging the Female Servant in Early Modern Tragedy.”  In Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama, ed. Michelle M. Dowd and Natasha Korda.  Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2011.  131-44.
 
“Introduction” (co-authored with Julie A. Eckerle).  In Genre and Women’s Life Writing in Early Modern England, ed. Michelle M. Dowd and Julie A. Eckerle.  Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007.  1-13.
 
“Structures of Piety in Elizabeth Richardson’s Legacie.”  In Genre and Women’s Life Writing in Early Modern England, ed. Michelle M. Dowd and Julie A. Eckerle.  Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007.  115-30.