HR job title
- Distinguished Professor
- Contact Info
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Ezell, Margaret Distinguished Professor
Positions
- John and Sara Lindsey Chair, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University
- Distinguished Professor, English, College of Liberal Arts
My interests are late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century literary culture; early modern women writers; history of authorship, reading and handwritten culture; early modern social media and multi-modal literacy
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Overview
Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Ezell, M.
(2020).
Lively Effigies: Memorial Ephemera. Eighteenth-Century Life.
44(2), 134-155.
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Ezell, M.
(2018).
Multimodal literacies, late seventeenth-century English illustrated broadsheets, and graphic narratives. Eighteenth-Century Studies.
51(3), 357-373.
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Ezell, M.
(2017).
Big books, big data, and reading literary histories. Eighteenth-Century Life.
41(3), 3-19.
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Ezell, M.
(2015).
The Times Displayed: Late Seventeenth-Century English Commemorative Broadsheets and Media Hybridity. The Yearbook of English Studies.
45, 12-34.
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Ezell, M.
(2014).
Dying to Be Read: Gallows Authorship in Late Seventeenth-Century England. Authorship.
3(1),
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Ezell, M.
(2012).
Seventeenth-Century Female Author Portraits, Or, The Company She Keeps. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik.
60(1), 31-45.
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Ezell, M.
(2011).
Elizabeth Isham's Books of Remembrance and Forgetting. Modern Philology.
109(1), 71-84.
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Ezell, M.
(2010).
Editing Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts: Theory, Electronic Editions, and the Accidental Copy‐Text. Literature Compass.
7(2), 102-109.
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Ezell, M.
(2009).
Performance Texts: Arise Evans, Grace Carrie, and the Interplay of Oral and Handwritten Traditions during the Print Revolution. ELH.
76(1), 49-73.
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Ezell, M.
(2008).
The Laughing Tortoise: Speculations on Manuscript Sources and Women's Book History. English Literary Renaissance.
38(2), 331-355.
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Ezell, M.
(2004).
Do manuscript studies have a future in early modern women studies?. Shakespeare Studies.
32, 63-65.
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Ezell, M.
(2004).
Looking Glass Histories. Journal of British Studies.
43(3), 317-338.
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EZELL, M.
(1984).
WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR OLD MAIDS - PYM,BARBARA AND THE WOMAN QUESTION. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WOMENS STUDIES.
7(5), 450-465.
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Ezell, M.
(2020).
Lively Effigies: Memorial Ephemera. Eighteenth-Century Life.
44(2), 134-155.
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book
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Ezell, M.
(2017).
The Oxford English Literary History Volume V: 1645-1714: the Later Seventeenth Century. Oxford University Press.
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Ezell, M.
(2016).
Bathsua Makin and Mary More, with a Reply to More by Robert Whitehall Educating English Daughters: Late Seventeenth-Century Debates. ACMRS Publications.
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Killigrew, A., & Ezell, M.
(2013).
"My Rare Wit Killing Sin" Poems of a Restoration Courtier. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies.
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Ezell, M.
(2003).
Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. JHU Press.
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Ezell, M.
(1996).
Writing Women's Literary History. JHU Press.
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Ezell, M., & O'Keeffe, K. O.
(1994).
Cultural Artifacts and the Production of Meaning The Page, the Image, and the Body. University of Michigan Press.
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Ezell, M.
(1987).
The patriarch's wife literary evidence and the history of the family. Univ of North Carolina Pr.
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Ezell, M.
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 1645–1714: The Later Seventeenth Century: Companion Volume. Oxford University Press.
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Ezell, M.
(2017).
The Oxford English Literary History Volume V: 1645-1714: the Later Seventeenth Century. Oxford University Press.
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chapter
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EZELL, M.
(2020).
Epilogue. King, R. S. (Eds.),
After Print: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures.
(pp. 310-320).
University of Virginia Press.
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Ezell-Mainzer, M.
(2020).
The Letter of the Lord: Seventeenth-Century Sectarian Women, False Professors, and Re-thinking Literacy. Marotti, A. (Eds.),
New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, VI: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society 2011-2016.
(pp. 311-320).
ACMRS Press.
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Ezell, M.
(2019).
Invisibility Optics. Phillippy, P. (Eds.),
A History of Early Modern Women's Writing.
(pp. 27-45).
Cambridge University Press.
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Margaret J. M. Ezell, ..
(2019).
Renaissance Englishwomen as Writers, Readers, and Patrons. Berensmeyer, I. (Eds.),
Handbook of English Renaissance Literature.
(pp. 182-202).
DE GRUYTER.
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Ezell, M.
(2018).
Afterword: Mapping Early Modern Women’s Literary History. Knight, L., White, M., & Sauer, E. (Eds.),
Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain: Reading, Ownership, Circulation.
(pp. 274-278).
University of Michigan Press.
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Ezell-Mainzer, M.
(2017).
Afterword: “Her Book” and Early Modern Modes of Collaboration. Pender, P. (Eds.),
Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration.
(pp. 245-258).
Palgrave MacMillan.
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Ezell, M.
(2016).
'Household affaires are the opium of the soul': Damaris Masham and the necessity of women's poetry. Write or be Written: Early Modern Women Poets and Cultural Constraints.
(pp. 49-66).
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Ezell-Mainzer, M.
(2014).
Late seventeenth-century women poets and the anxiety of attribution. Wiseman, S. (Eds.),
Early Modern Women and the Poem.
(pp. 147-161).
Manchester University Press.
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Ezell, M.
(2014).
Late Seventeenth-Century Women Writers and the Penny Post: Early Social Media Forms and Access to Celebrity. Pender, P., & Smith, R. (Eds.),
Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing.
(pp. 140-158).
Palgrave Macmillan UK.
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Ezell, M.
(2014).
Handwriting and the book. Howsam, L. (Eds.),
The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book.
(pp. 90-106).
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Ezell-Mainzer, M.
(2013).
Cooking the books, or, the three faces of Hannah Woolley. DiMeo, M., & Pennell, S. (Eds.),
Reading and writing recipe books, 1550–1800.
(pp. 159-178).
University of Manchester Press.
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Ezell-Mainzer, M.
(2012).
The Exemplary Wife: Anna Cromwell Williams's Book of Secrets. May, S., & Cerasano, S. (Eds.),
In the Prayse of Writing Early Modern Manuscript Studies : Essays in Honour of Peter Beal.
(pp. 281-299).
British Library Board.
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Ezell-Mainzer, M.
(2009).
Invisible Books. Runge, L. L., & Rogers, P. (Eds.),
Producing the Eighteenth-Century Book Writers and Publishers in England, 1650-1800.
University of Delaware Press.
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Ezell, M.
(2008).
Women and Writing. A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing.
(pp. 77-94).
Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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EZELL, M.
(2020).
Epilogue. King, R. S. (Eds.),
After Print: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures.
(pp. 310-320).
University of Virginia Press.
editor of
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book
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Beal, P., & Ezell, M.
(2000).
Writings by Early Modern Women
Ezell-Mainzer, M. (Eds.),
British Library Board.
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Mary, L. C.
(1993).
The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh
Ezell-Mainzer, M. (Eds.),
Oxford University Press.
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Beal, P., & Ezell, M.
(2000).
Writings by Early Modern Women
Ezell-Mainzer, M. (Eds.),
British Library Board.
Research
awards and honors
- Fellowship, conferred by Royal Historical Society - (London, United Kingdom), 2019
- Fellowship, conferred by John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - (New York, New York, United States), 2003
- ACLS Fellows (ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships and ACLS/New York Public Library Fellowships), conferred by American Council of Learned Societies - (New York, New York, United States), 1996
Teaching
teaching activities
- ENGL203 Writing About Literature Instructor
- ENGL212 Shakespeare Instructor
- ENGL231 Survey Of English Lit I Instructor
- ENGL316 18th Century Lit & Cult Instructor
- ENGL317 Early British Drama Instructor
- ENGL374 Women Writers Instructor
- ENGL390 Studies In British Lit Instructor
- ENGL392 Lit Religion And Culture Instructor
- ENGL414 Milton Instructor
- ENGL481 Sr Sem: Aphra Behn Instructor
- ENGL481 Sr Sem: Lit Queen Elizabeth I Instructor
- ENGL485 Directed Studies Instructor
- ENGL491 Hnr-research Instructor
- ENGL611 Tp:shakespeare Rivals & Collab Instructor
- ENGL618 Readings 18 Cen Brit Lit Instructor
- ENGL638 Tpcs 18/19c Brit Lit&cult Instructor
- ENGL685 Directed Studies Instructor
- ENGL691 Research Instructor
- ENGL691 Research Instructor
- ENGL691 Research: In-ab Instructor
- RELS392 Lit Religion And Culture Instructor
- WGST374 Women Writers Instructor
Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
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Beggs, Courtney Beth (2010-08). Risky Business: The Discourse of Credit and Early Modern Female Playwrights Before Defoe.
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Bose, Soham (2015-08). Doing Time: The Black Experience of Prisons in Are Prisons Obsolete?.
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Choi, Jaemin (2010-05). Theatricality, Cheap Print, and the Historiography of the English Civil War.
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Dezort, Steven Michael (2017-05). The Character of John Locke in the Eighteenth Century.
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Moore, Shawn William (2017-08). Experimenting with Cavendish: The Heuretics of Social Literacy in the Writing of the Thrice Noble Princess, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.
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Ozment, Kate Elizabeth (2018-05). The Author and the Agent: Women's Writing and Commercial Publishing in Early Modern England.
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Parker, Meghan Lee (2013-05). Writing Their Way In: The Dedicatory Epistles of Early Modern English Women Authors.
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Streeter, Michael T. (2009-05). Romantic Science: Science and Romance as Literary Modes in Sir Kenelm Digby's Loose Fantasies and Two Treatises.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in English Literature (History), University of Cambridge - (Cambridge, United Kingdom) 1981
- B.A. in Honors in English and History, Wellesley College - (Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States) 1977
Contact
first name
- Margaret
has last name
- Ezell
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
English
4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4227
USA
Other
- m-ezell@tamu.edu