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Frances Elizabeth Dolan

  • Professor of English
Rm. 262 Voorhies
Office Hours: No office hours
Phone: (530) 752-1696

Biography:

Professor Dolan joined the UC Davis faculty as Professor of English in 2003. Before coming to Davis, she taught at Miami University, as well as the University of Chicago and Columbia University. Her teaching and research focus on early modern English literature and history (1500-1700), although she is increasingly interested in how that particular past bears on the present. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities at the Newberry Library and the Folger Library as well as a Monticello College Foundation Fellowship at the Newberry.   In 2004-5, she served as the President of the Shakespeare Association of America.

  With the support of a 2009-2010 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Dolan is researching and writing her fourth book, "True Relations: Reading, Evidence, and Seventeenth-Century England."  The project explores the connection between debates regarding standards of evidence in the early modern period and debates among scholars today regarding their selection, interpretation, and use of textual evidence. Kinds of evidence addressed include depositions, conduct books, pamphlets, ballads, and plays.

 

Dolan BookPublication Spotlight

Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy
  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008

"Why does marriage so often lead to violence? In her timely and important new book, Frances Dolan identifies the culprit: an 'economy of scarcity' that modern marriage inherits from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Powerfully argued and wonderfully well documented, Marriage and Violence provides a rare example of how historical scholarship can illuminate the present."—Richard Helgerson, University of California, Santa Barbara

 "For Marriage, the Honeymoon Is Over"

(Review in The Chronicle of Higher Education)

 

Anne Boleyn and the Chop Heard 'Round the World

"How we ended up with such vile ideas about marriage" (interview with Josey Vogels)

Selected Articles:

Radio Broadcast:

Murder at Home: Domestic Tragedy on the Renaissance Stage


Other Books:

  • Whores of Babylon. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. Reprinted in paper with a new preface by the University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.
  • The Taming of the Shrew: Texts and Contexts. Boston: Bedford Books, 1996.
  • Dangerous Familiars:  Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1500-1700. Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1994.
  • Five plays for the New Pelican Shakespeare (As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Richard II, Timon of Athens, Winter's Tale).

 

 

Education & Interests:

  1. Ph.D.The University of Chicago, 1988; B.A. Loyola University, 1982.

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