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Associate Professor of English
(Hire Date: 1993)
Ph. D., University of California, San Diego, 1993
M.A., University of California, San Diego, 1990
A.B., Duke University, 1979

matchin@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-4058

 

MEGAN M. MATCHINSKE

Associate Professor

Department of English
CB #3520, Greenlaw Hall                                                          
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill                                                                                          
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3520

telephone: (919) 962-4058
facsimile: (919) 962-3520
email: matchin@email.unc.edu                                                                                                           

EDUCATION:

1993                                  Ph.D., Literature, University of California, San Diego

1979                                  A.B., English/Art, Duke University (magna cum laude)

PUBLICATIONS:

              BOOKS:

Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England: Identity Formation and the Female Subject, Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 26 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP) 1998

              ARTICLES/REVIEWS:

"Putting Bottom on Top: Gender and the Married Man in Michael Hoffman's Dream," Shakespeare Bulletin (in press, 2004): 28 pages

"Truth in the Telling: Moral, Method and History in Anne Dowriche's The French Historie," English Literary Renaissance 34.2 (2004): 44 pages

"Coming to Good End: Women, Legacy Writing, and History" in Attending to Early Modern Women: Gender, Culture, and Change, ed. Margaret Mikesell and Adele Seeff, Associated University Presses, 2003

"Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature by Linda Woodbridge," Journal of English and Germanic Philology 102.1 (2003): 152-54

"Gendering Catholic Conformity: The Politics of Equivocation in Elizabeth Grymeston's Miscelanea" Journal of English and Germanic Philology 101.3 (2002): 329-57

"Body Narratives: Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England by Susanne Scholz," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 32 (2001): 118-19

"Women's Worlds in Shakespeare's Plays by Irene G. Dash, Shakespeare Quarterly 50 (1999): 539-42

"Dangerous Talk and Strange Behavior by Sharon L. Jansen," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 28 (1997): 444-45

"Credible Consorts: What Happens when Shakespeare's Sisters Enter the Syllabus?" Shakespeare Quarterly 47 (1996): 433-50

"Legislating 'Middle-Class' Morality in the Marriage Market, Ester Sowernam's Ester hath hang'd Haman," English Literary Renaissance 24.1 (1994): 154-83

"Holy Hatred: Formations of the Gendered Subject in English Apocalyptic Writing, 1625-1651," English Literary History 60 (1993): 349-77

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Strategies for Survival: Writing Legacy and Gendering History in Early Modern England, four chapters drafted

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Early modern British literature and culture; women's studies/gender studies; hagiography and religious culture; philosophies of history

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (last five years):

"Truth in the Telling: Gendering Structures of Authenticity in Early Modern and Academic Contexts," Attending to Early Modern Women: Structures and Subjectivities, Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, College Park, MD, November 6-8, 2003

"Telling True: History's Past and the End of the Story," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Tampa, FL, November 14-17, 2002

"Providential Persuasion in Anne Dowriche's The French Historie," Renaissance Society of America, Scottsdale, AZ, April 11-13, 2002

"Gender and Recusancy: Texts and Contexts," Chair and Respondent, Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL, March 29-31, 2001

"Coming to Good End: Women, Legacy Writing, and History," Attending to Early Modern Women: Gender, Culture, and Change, Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, College Park, MD, November 9-11, 2000

Seminar Leader, "'A Most Rare Vision': Putting Bottom on Top in A Midsummer Night's Dream," In Love with Shakespeare, Program in the Humanities and Human Values, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, December 10-11, 1999 and May 12-13, 2000

"History and the Quest for an Authentic: Pedagogy and Practices," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Coral Gables, FL, October 7-10, 1999

"Un-Making Public Policy: Elizabeth Grymeston's Miscelanea and the Jacobean Oath of Allegiance," Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, December 27-30, 1998

"Responsible Stories: Ethics, History, and the Politics of Telos," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Newport, RI, November 19-22, 1998

ACADEMIC SERVICE:

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:

Director of Graduate Admissions (DGA), 1998-2001

Undergraduate Advisor, Cultural Studies, 1997-present

BOARDS AND COMMITTEES:

Scholarly Publications and Artistic Exhibitions Committee, 2003-2006

Chairman's Advisory Committee, English Department, 2002-2005

Critical Speakers Committee, Chair, English Department, 2002-2005

Literature and Film Hiring Committee, English Department, 2002-03

Critical Speakers Committee, English Department, 2002-03

Renaissance Hiring Committee, English Department, 2001-02

Graduate Administrative Committee, Co-Chair, English Department, 1998-2001

M.A. Administrative Committee, Chair, English Department, 1998-2001

Association for Women Faculty and Professionals, Advisory Board, 1998-2001

Development Committee, English Department, 1998

Cultural Studies Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1997-present

Planning Committee, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, UNC-CH, December 4-7, 1997

Theory Hiring Committee, English Department, 1998-99

Renaissance Hiring Committee, English Department, 1997-1998

Faculty Grievance Committee, 1996-1998

Steering Committee, Departmental Review, English Department, 1996-1997

Chairman's Advisory Committee, English Department, 1995-1997

Planning Committee, "Studying the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: What Difference

Does Gender Make?" UNC-CH, October 27-29, 1995

Freshman Committee, English Department, 1994-1995

THESIS AND DISSERTATION ADVISING:

1997-present       Director, Six Dissertations

1996-present       Director, Two Master's Theses

1994-present       Director, Eleven Honors Theses

1993-present       Reader, Thirty-Eight Dissertation Committees

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies

Modern Language Association

North Carolina Research Group on Medieval and Early Modern Women

New York Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance

Renaissance Society of America

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS (cont.):

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women

Southeastern Renaissance Conference

Updated/fall 2003

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