Jessica Wolfe

Jessica Wolfe is the author of Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature, published by Cambridge University Press in 2004. She is currently completing a second book, entitled Homer and the Problem of Strife in the Renaissance. Portions of this book have been published in Renaissance Papers (2003), in Renaissance Quarterly (Winter 2005), and in a special volume of College Literature devoted to the reception of Homer (Fall 2008). Professor Wolfe has recently completed an essay on The Faerie Queene for the Blackwell Companion to Tudor Literature; additional projects include an article for the MLA Approaches to Teaching Milton's Paradise Lost ("Paradise Lost and the Epic Tradition") and an article for the Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare ("Shakespeare and the Classics"). She is also a contributor to the Oxford History of Classical Relations to English Literature (OHCREL), for which she will be writing an article on the reception of Homer in early modern England.

Professor Wolfe's teaching interests include the history of science, the history of the book, the history of classical scholarship in the Renaissance, epic and romance, and continental Renaissance literature.

In 2002, Wolfe was awarded the William H. Friday award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Also in fall 2002, Wolfe received the AGES award for mentoring at the M.A. level. Wolfe was selected one of three "superlative" undergraduate teachers at Carolina by the senior class of 2001.

Department of English and Comparative Literature | Greenlaw Hall, CB #3520 | University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
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