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- Distinguished Professor
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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 Arts and Sciences
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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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Ezell, M.
(2021).
Invisible Women, 1983-2021 INTRODUCTION. Huntington Library Quarterly: studies in English and American history and literature.
84(1), 5-12.
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Ezell, M., & Jung, S.
(2020).
Lively EffigiesMemorial Ephemera. Eighteenth-Century Life.
44(2), 136-157.
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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. 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 fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik.
60(1), 31-45.
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Ezell, M.
(2011).
Elizabeth Isham's Books of Remembrance and Forgetting. Modern Philology: critical and historical studies in postclassical literature.
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. 7(2), 102-109.
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McGann, J., Gabler, H. W., Wolfson, S. J., Pratt, L., Curran, S., Marotti, A. F., ... Mandell, L.
(2010).
Special Issue: 'Scholarly Editing in the Twenty-First Century' - Combined Bibliography. Literature Compass.
7(2), 134-144.
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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: English literary history.
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.
(2006).
Literary Historys Alternate Groove: The Expectations of Periodization and SeventeenthCentury Literary Culture. 3(3), 444-452.
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Ezell, M.
(2004).
Do manuscript studies have a future in early modern women studies?. Shakespeare Studies: an annual gathering of research, criticism and review.
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.
(2004).
Mr. Spectator on Readers and the Conspicuous Consumption of Literature. Literature Compass.
1(1), **-**.
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Ezell, M.
(1994).
Making History: Early English Women Writers and the Conception of National Literary Histories. South Atlantic Review.
59(2), 11-11.
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EZELL, M.
(1994).
READING PSEUDONYMS IN 17TH-CENTURY ENGLISH COTERIE LITERATURE. Essays in Literature.
21(1), 14-25.
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EZELL, M.
(1992).
THE GENTLEMANS-JOURNAL AND THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF RESTORATION COTERIE LITERARY PRACTICES. Modern Philology: critical and historical studies in postclassical literature.
89(3), 323-340.
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EZELL, M.
(1990).
THE MYTH OF JUDITH-SHAKESPEARE, CREATING THE CANON OF WOMENS LITERATURE + EFFECTS OF WOOLF A 'ROOM OF ONES OWN' ON CURRENT ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT WOMEN-WRITERS IN THE RENAISSANCE AND 17TH-CENTURY. New Literary History.
21(3), 579-592.
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Ezell, M.
(1988).
Thomas Carew and the Erotic Law of Nature. Explorations in Renaissance Culture.
14(1), 99-114.
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EZELL, M.
(1988).
TO BE YOUR DAUGHTER IN YOUR PEN - THE SOCIAL FUNCTIONS OF LITERATURE IN THE WRITINGS OF BRACKLEY,ELIZABETH AND CAVENDISH,JANE. Huntington Library Quarterly: studies in English and American history and literature.
51(4), 281-296.
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EZELL, M.
(1984).
WALLER,RICHARD, IN THE PURSUIT OF NATURE. Notes and Records of the Royal Society.
38(2), 215-233.
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EZELL, M.
(1984).
FILMER,ROBERT AND THE ENGLISH PATRIARCH. Seventeenth-Century News.
42(4), 60-66.
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EZELL, M.
(1984).
LOCKE,JOHN IMAGES OF CHILDHOOD - EARLY 18TH-CENTURY RESPONSE TO 'SOME THOUGHTS CONCERNING EDUCATION'. Eighteenth-Century Studies.
17(2), 139-155.
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EZELL, M.
(1984).
WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR OLD MAIDS - PYM,BARBARA AND THE WOMAN QUESTION. International journal of women's studies.
7(5), 450-465.
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Ezell, M.
(2021).
Invisible Women, 1983-2021 INTRODUCTION. Huntington Library Quarterly: studies in English and American history and literature.
84(1), 5-12.
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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.
(2017).
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 16451714: The Later Seventeenth Century: Companion Volume. 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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Tenger, Z., & Ezell, M.
(2003).
Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. JHU Press.
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Jansson, S., & 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.
(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.
(2023).
Recovery. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing.
(pp. 1-9).
Springer Nature.
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Ezell, M.
(2022).
Manuscript and Print: Which Is More Important for Understanding Womens Writing in the Early Modern Period?. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing.
(pp. 1-10).
Springer Nature.
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Ezell, M.
(2022).
Recovery. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing.
(pp. 1-9).
Springer Nature.
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Ezell, M.
(2022).
Teaching the Modesty Trope Early Modern Women's Texts in a Twenty-First-Century Classroom. FEMINIST FORMALISM AND EARLY MODERN WOMEN'S WRITING.
(pp. 219-231).
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Ezell, M.
(2021).
The Ignorant Reader: Imagining Vernacular Literacies in Seventeenth-Century England. Habent sua fata libelli.
(pp. 431-445).
Brill Academic Publishers.
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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, M.
(2020).
New Methods for Manuscript Studies Epilogue. AFTER PRINT: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT CULTURES.
(pp. 310-320).
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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).
Manuscript and Print Cultures 15001700. The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship.
(pp. 115-132).
Cambridge University Press (CUP).
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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).
Invisibility Optics. Phillippy, P. (Eds.),
A History of Early Modern Women's Writing.
(pp. 27-45).
Cambridge University Press (CUP).
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Ezell, M.
(2018).
Afterword: Mapping Early Modern Womens Literary History. Knight, L., White, M., & Sauer, E. (Eds.),
Womens 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 Womens 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, 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).
Springer Nature.
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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, M.
(2013).
8 Cooking the books, or, the three faces of Hannah Woolley. DiMeo, M., & Pennell, S. (Eds.),
Reading and writing recipe books, 15501800.
(pp. 159-178).
Manchester University Press.
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Ezell, M.
(2013).
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-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.
(2007).
5. Bunyans Women, Womens Bunyan. Trauma and Transformation.
(pp. 63-80).
DE GRUYTER.
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Ezell, M.
(2007).
Bunyart'S Women, Women's Bunyan. Trauma and Transformation.
(pp. 63-80).
Stanford University Press.
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Ezell, M.
(2003).
By a Lady: The Mask of the Feminine in Restoration, Early Eighteenth-Century Print Culture. The Faces of Anonymity: Anonymous and Pseudonymous Publication from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century.
(pp. 63-79).
Springer Nature.
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Ezell, M.
(2003).
From Manuscript to Print: a Volume of Their Own?. WOMEN AND POETRY 1660-1750.
(pp. 140-160).
Springer Nature.
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Ezell, M.
(2002).
Women and Writing. A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing.
(pp. 77-94).
Wiley.
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Ezell, M.
(2023).
Recovery. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing.
(pp. 1-9).
Springer Nature.
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review
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Ezell, M.
(2020).
The Value of Time in Early Modern English Literature. Renaissance Quarterly.
1466-1467.
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Ezell, M.
(2019).
Editing Early Modern Women. Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats.
166-168.
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Ezell, M.
(2017).
British Literature and Print Culture. Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats.
74-76.
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Ezell, M.
(2016).
Women's Works. Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
242-245.
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Ezell, M.
(2014).
The Poetics and Politics of Youth in Milton's England. Milton Quarterly.
119-122.
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Ezell, M.
(2014).
PRODUCING WOMEN'S POETRY, 1600-1730 Text and paratext, manuscript and print. TLS - The Times Literary Supplement.
29-29.
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Ezell, M.
(2013).
Jonathan Swift in Print and Manuscript. Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats.
39-41.
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Ezell, M.
(2011).
Mary Astell: Reason, Gender Faith. Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats.
221-223.
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Ezell, M.
(2011).
The History of the Book in the West: 1700-1800, vol 3. Eighteenth-Century Studies.
555-557.
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Ezell, M.
(2010).
Sociable Criticism in England, 1625-1725. Modern Philology: critical and historical studies in postclassical literature.
E119-E122.
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Ezell, M.
(2010).
Women Novelists Before Jane Austen: The Critics and Their Canons. Eighteenth-Century Fiction.
731-732.
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Ezell, M.
(1998).
Culture and society in the Stuart Restoration: Literature, drama, history. Modern Philology: critical and historical studies in postclassical literature.
392-395.
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Ezell, M.
(1998).
Revisioning Responding: A second look at Women Playwrights Around 1800. Romanticism on the Net.
0-0.
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Ezell, M.
(1998).
The poetry of Laetitia Pilkington (1712-1750) and Constantia Grierson (1706-1733). Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats.
63-65.
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Ezell, M.
(1998).
Women and literature in Britain 1500-1700. 583-585.
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EZELL, M.
(1995).
SPECTACULAR POLITICS - THEATRICAL POWER AND MASS CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND - BACKSCHEIDER,PR. Eighteenth-Century Studies.
117-118.
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Ezell, M.
(1994).
Making a Classic: The Advent of the Literary Series. South Central Review.
2-2.
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EZELL, M.
(1993).
GENDER AND AUTHORSHIP IN THE SIDNEY CIRCLE - LAMB,ME. 120-122.
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EZELL, M.
(1992).
CONGREVE, THE DRAMA, AND THE PRINTED WORD - PETERS,JS. Theatre Journal (Baltimore).
133-134.
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Ezell, M., & Marcus, J.
(1989).
Art and Anger: Reading like a Woman. South Central Review.
122-122.
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EZELL, M.
(1986).
WOMEN IN ENGLISH-SOCIETY 1500-1800 - PRIOR,M. Seventeenth-Century News.
15-16.
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EZELL, M.
(1985).
GENTLE FLAME - THE LIFE AND VERSE OF DUDLEY, 4TH LORD-NORTH (1602-1677) - RANDALL,DBJ. Seventeenth-Century News.
16-17.
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EZELL, M.
(1984).
THE BRINK OF ALL WE HATE - ENGLISH SATIRES ON WOMEN, 1660-1750 - NUSSBAUM,FA. Seventeenth-Century News.
42-42.
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EZELL, M.
(1982).
LIVES AND LIBERTIES. Essays in Criticism: a quarterly journal of literary criticism.
69-74.
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Ezell, M.
(2020).
The Value of Time in Early Modern English Literature. Renaissance Quarterly.
1466-1467.
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.
Teaching
teaching activities
- ENGL203 Hnr-writing About Literature Instructor
- ENGL212 Shakespeare Instructor
- ENGL231 Survey Of English Lit I Instructor
- ENGL315 17th Century Literature 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 (2011-10). 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 (2011-08). 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 (2017-05). 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 (2018-03). The Author and the Agent: Women's Writing and Commercial Publishing in Early Modern England.
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Parker, Meghan Lee (2013-04). Writing Their Way In: The Dedicatory Epistles of Early Modern English Women Authors.
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Streeter, Michael T. (2010-07). 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
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
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