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Denise Albanese
Associate Professor; Graduate Director
Denise Albanese received her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She teaches single-author courses on Shakespeare and Milton; early modern culture; the cultural construction of sexuality; the classical epic tradition; Foucault; mass and popular culture; and cultural studies. These course offerings are a reflection of her scholarly interests, which in addition to early modern literature include the critical study of technoscience and the function of historicism in cultural studies.
Professor Albanese is author of New Science, New World (Duke UP, 1996), a study linking the conceptual structures of colonialism with the emergence of modern scientific discourse. She has just completed an analysis of Shakespeare’s myriad locations in peri-millennial public culture in the United States, entitled Extramural Shakespeare. Albanese has also published essays on Shakespeare on film and on the politics of color-blind casting; on elite and popular culture; and on Tudor-Stuart mathematics. She was also a contributing editor to an award-winning edition of Juan Luis Vives’ Instruction for a Christen Woman (U of Illinois P, 2002).
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Phone: 703.993.1175
Office: Robinson Hall A 479
Department Affiliations: Honors Program