Wendy Wall

Professor of English

University Hall Room 204
Telephone: (847) 467-1064
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: w-wall@northwestern.edu

Wendy Wall is a Professor of English at Northwestern University . She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, with a speciality in early modern literature and culture. She is author of The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance (Cornell University Press, 1993) and Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2002), which was a finalist for the James Russell Lowell prize awarded by the MLA and a 2002 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Winner.

Professor Wall has been the recipient of several grants and awards for her teaching and research, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a 1993 Teaching Award from Mortar Board, a 1998 Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award, the College of Arts and Sciences AT &T Research Fellowship, and the 1998-2001 Wender-Lewis Research and Teaching Professorship. She gives public lecturers in conjunction with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and with the Newberry Library in Chicago, and has served as a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America.

Professor Wall has published articles on topics as wide-ranging as editorial theory, gender, national identity, the history of authorship, Renaissance husbandry, female will-making, housework, theatrical practice, and Jell-O. She is currently at work on a book tentatively entitled Early Modern Recipe Books.

Publications by Wendy Wall

Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama

The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance

Selected Articles:

"The Return of the Author," Shakespeare Studies, ed. Patrick Cheney, fall 2008

"Distilling Art and Nature: Transformations in the Kitchen," Renaissance Food, ed. Joan Fitzpatrick. Ashgate, forthcoming.

"Household 'Writing': or the Joys of Carving." Essays in Honor of Phyllis Rackin. Susquehanna Univ. Press, 2008.

"Just a Spoonful of Sugar: Syrup and Domesticity in Early Modern England."
Modern Philology, Vol 104:2 (2006): 149-172.

"De-generation: Editions, Offspring, and Romeo and Juliet." Redefining
British Theatre History. 3rd Volume: From Stage to Print in Early Modern England. Eds. Peter Holland and Stephen Orgel. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

"Jell-O: Mortality and Mutability in the Kitchen." Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture ((winter 2006): 41-50.

"Editors in Love: Textual and Authorial Desire and Romeo and Juliet." The Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare and Performance, ed. Barbara Hodgdon and W.B. Worthen, 2005.

"Dramatic Authorship and Print." Writers of the English Renaissance, Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. Ed. Garrett Sullivan and Andrew Hadfield,, 2005.

"Blood in the Kitchen: Violence and Early Modern Domestic Work." Women and Violence in the Early Modern Period: Essays in Honor of Paul Jorgensen. Ed. Linda Woodbridge and Sharon Beehler. University of Arizona Press, 2002.

"The Merry Wives of Windsor." A Companion to Shakespeare, Vol. III: The Comedies. Ed. Jean Howard and Richard Burt. Blackwell, 2002.

"Why Does Puck Sweep?: Fairylore, Merry Wives and Social Struggle." Shakespeare Quarterly, 52 (2001): 67-106.

"'Household Stuff': The Sexual Politics of Domesticity and the Advent of English Comedy." The Journal of English Literary History (ELH) 65 (1998): 1-45.

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