WENDY WALL. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1989 M.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1985 B.A. University of Alabama, Summa Cum Laude, 1984

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1 WENDY WALL DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, 215 UNIVERSITY HALL NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY EVANSTON, IL AFFILIATION Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities, Northwestern University (2011-present) Professor of English Literature, Northwestern University ( ) Associate Professor, Northwestern University ( ) Assistant Professor, Northwestern University ( ) PROFESSIONAL FIELD Early Modern English Literature and Culture, EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1989 M.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1985 B.A. University of Alabama, Summa Cum Laude, 1984 HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellowship, The Huntington Library, to be taken in 2020 Humanities Without Walls Mellon Grant (P.I. Dianne Harris, University of Illinois). $2 million grant for 15 Consortium Universities. Fellowship, The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University, Presenter, Annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture, The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 2011 Research Fellowship, University Research Grants Council, for research at the Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine (London), The British Library, Huntington Library and Folger Shakespeare Library, 2009 Honorable Mention. James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association (Staging Domesticity), 2003 (open to all 30,000 members of the MLA) Research Fellowship, University Research Short Term Grant, 2003 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Winner (Staging Domesticity), 2002 Trustee for the Shakespeare Association of America, Wender-Lewis Research and Teaching Professor, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Award, 1998 Folger Library Short-Term Research Grant, Washington, D.C., 1998 Northwestern University Research Short-Term Research Grant, 1996; 2002 College of Arts and Sciences, AT &T Research Fellow, Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Northwestern University, Teaching Award with Outstanding Recognition from Mortar Board, 1993

2 WENDY WALL -- 2 National Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, Graduate Study, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Alabama, 1984 PUBLICATIONS BOOKS AND EDITIONS Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming 2015). Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Reissued in paperback by Cambridge, The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance (Cornell University Press, 1993) Microcynicon, in The Complete Works of Thomas Middleton, general editor, Gary Taylor (Oxford University Press, 2008) Co-Editor, Renaissance Drama. Northwestern University Press, from , 7 issues ARTICLES Afterword. Culinary Shakespeare, ed. David Goldstein and Amy Tigner. Duquesne University Press, manuscript at press. Afterlives. Centerpiece for a letterpress booklet created by an artists collaborative project at the Sommerakademie at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland. This program involved an international group of artists, writers, and curators working on food, in collaboration with Cuisine san frontieres Finding Desire in Windsor: Gender, Consumption, and Animality in Merry Wives, The Merry Wives of Windsor: New Critical Essays, ed. Phyllis Rackin and Evelyn Gajowski (Routledge), forthcoming, At Home with Shakespeare: Merry Wives on Stage, Chicago Shakespeare Theater: The First 25 Years. Eds. Regina Buccola and Peter Kanelos. Northern Illinois University Press, All s Well That Ends Well: Seasoning and Recipe Writing. A Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, Race. Oxford University Press. Ed. Valerie Traub (forthcoming, 2015) Reading the Home: The Case of the English House-wife. Renaissance Paratexts. Ed. Helen Smith and Louise Wilson (Cambridge University Press, 2011),

3 WENDY WALL -- 3 Literacy and the Domestic Arts. Huntington Library Quarterly. Special Issue, The Textuality and Materiality of Reading in Early Modern England. Eds. Jennifer Richards and Fred Schurink 73:3 (2010): Distillation: Transformations in and out of the Kitchen, Renaissance Food, ed. Joan Fitzpatrick (Ashgate Press, 2010), Household Writing : or the Joys of Carving. Feminisms and Early Modern Texts: Essays in Honor of Phyllis Rackin. Ed. Rebecca Ann Bach and Gwynne Kennedy (Susquehanna Univ. Press, 2010), Women in the Household. The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women s Writing. Ed. Laura Lunger Knoppers (Cambridge University Press), 2009, To Be a Man in Print, from Imprint of Gender, rpt. in Women Editing/Editing Women: Early Modern Women Writers and the New Textualism (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Early Modern Authorship in Special issue The Return of the Author. Shakespeare Studies, ed. Susan Zimmerman and Garrett Sullivan. 36 (2008): Dramatic Authorship and Print. Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion. Eds. Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield and Garrett Sullivan (Oxford University Press, 2007), Just a Spoonful of Sugar: Syrup and Domesticity in Early Modern England. Modern Philology, 104:2 (2006): De-generation: Editions, Offspring, and Romeo and Juliet. Redefining British Theatre History. 3 rd Volume: From Performance 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 6:1 (2006): 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 (Blackwell Press, 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: Unhusbanding Desires in Windsor. A Companion to Shakespeare s Works: The Comedies, Vol. III. Eds. Jean Howard and Richard Dutton (Blackwell Press, 2003), "Why Does Puck Sweep?: Fairylore, Merry Wives and Social Struggle." Shakespeare Quarterly 52 (2001):

4 WENDY WALL -- 4 "Circulating Texts in Early Modern England." Options for Teaching Early Modern British Women. Ed. Susanne Woods and Margaret Hannay (Publication of the Modern Language Association, 2000). Rpt. In Literary Criticism, (LC ), forthcoming, "Constructing Authorship and the Material Conditions of Writing." The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, Ed. Arthur Kinney (Cambridge University Press, 1999), "Forgetting and Keeping: Jane Shore and the English Domestication of History." Renaissance Drama 27 (1996; published in 1998): "'Household Stuff': The Sexual Politics of Domesticity and the Advent of English Comedy." The Journal of English Literary History (ELH) 65 (1998): "Renaissance National Husbandry: Gervase Markham and the Publication of England." The Sixteenth Century Journal 27 (1996): "Reading for the Blot: Textual Desire in Early Modern English Literature." Reading and Writing in Shakespeare. Ed. David Bergeron. University of Delaware Press, 1996, "Our Bodies/Our Texts?: Renaissance Women and the Trials of Authorship." Anxious Power: Reading, Writing and Ambivalence in Narrative by Women. Ed. Susan Sweeney and Carol Singley (State University of New York Press, 1993), "Isabella Whitney and the Female Legacy." The Journal of English Literary History (ELH) 58 (1991): "Disclosures in Print: The 'Violent Enlargement' of the Renaissance Voyeuristic Text." Studies in English Literature 29 (1989): "Lettered Bodies and Corporeal Texts in The Color Purple." Studies in American Fiction 16 (1988): Reprinted in Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives. Ed. Henry Louis Gates and K. Anthony Appiah (Amistad Media Ltd, 1993). "Interpreting Poetic Shadows: The Gloss to the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner.'" Criticism 29 (1987): WORK IN PROGRESS Female Authorship. Commissioned for the Blackwell Companion to Renaissance Poetry, edited by Catherine Bates. Wiley-Blackwell. Research in progress. Feminism. Commissioned for SAA 2016: Reflections and Projections. Arden/Bloomsbury, Research in progress. INVITED TALKS Over 25 invited talks, including the following: Recipes for Thought: All s Well That Ends Well and Discourses of Knowledge, The Phyllis Rackin Lecture. University of Pennsylvania, February, 2013.

5 WENDY WALL -- 5 Recipes for Thought: Shakespeare and Nature in the Kitchen. Keynote for "Shakespeare and the Natural World." Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina March Recipes for Thought: Shakespeare and the Art of the Kitchen. Annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture at Folger Shakespeare Library. A public lecture held in conjunction with the exhibit Beyond Home Remedy. April 25, In Memory s Kitchen: Preserving and the World of Early English Recipes. Hermanns Lecture Series. Keynote for symposium, Food, Literature, Culture. Sponsored by the University of Texas, Arlington, In Memory s Kitchen. SUNY-Stonybrook Humanities Institute speaker, Kitchen Literacy. University of California, Davis, Kitchen Literacy. The Pennsylvania State University, Setting the Table of Contents. Keynote. Writing Cultures Symposium. Texas A & M., Setting the Table of Contents. Medieval and Early Modern Research Group. University of Minnesota, October At Home with Shakespeare. Western Michigan University, At Home with Shakespeare. Illinois Wesleyan University, Indexing the Index. Syracuse University, History of the Book Seminar, Syrup and Interdisciplinarity. Vanderbilt University, Reading the Home: The Case of The English Housewife. York University, UK., The Duchess of Malfi s Syrup, Or the Art of Dying Domestically in Early Modern England. Yale University, Shakespearean Linen. Annual McElroy Shakespeare Lecture, Loyola University, Chicago, An annual public lecture integrated with live performance. De-generation: Editions, Offspring, and Romeo and Juliet. Symposium on Redefining British Theatre History: From Performance to Print in Early Modern England. Huntington Library, Interdisciplinarity?: A Test Case, on Syrup. Harvard University, Just a Spoonful of Sugar: Syrup and Domesticity in Early Modern England. Duke University, The Domestic Politics of Affect. Loyola University, 2002.

6 WENDY WALL -- 6 Mortality and Domestic Life. Keynote address. The Renaissance Prose Conference: Comparative Perspectives. Purdue University, "Canning and the Uncanny." University of Michigan, "The Joys of Cooking." University of Chicago, "In Memory's Kitchen: Domestic Fantasy in Early Modern England." Brown University., "Milk and the National Imaginary in Early Modern England." Case Western Reserve University, "'Household Stuff: Gammer Gurton s Needle and Other Matters.'" University of Illinois, CONFERENCE PAPERS 35 conference presentations, including the following: Putting Gender to Work. Invited respondent. Shakespeare Association of America (SAA). St. Louis, April, The Proof of the Pudding: Recipes and Knowledge Cultures in 17 th Century England. Shakespeare Association of America, Toronto, Co-organizer, Situated Knowledge Practices. Shakespeare Association of America, Toronto, Seasoning and Recipe Writing. International Shakespeare Association. Prague, Timely Knowledge. Food and Diet in the Early Modern Period. Shakespeare Association of America, Seattle, Preserving Nature: Food and Memory in Early Recipe Books. The Renaissance Society of America. Venice, Household Writing. Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles, Distillation: Transformations in the Kitchen Renaissance Society of America, Setting the Table of Contents. Shakespeare Association of America. San Diego, 2006, How does a Literary Scholar read Othello? Presentation for One Book, One Northwestern, Reading the Home: The Case of The English Housewife. Renaissance Society of America (RSA), San Francisco, Citing Romeo/Citing Film, GEMCS, Oct (paper read; medical leave). Ideologies of Housework in Early Modern England. American Historical Association conference, Chicago, 2003.

7 WENDY WALL -- 7 Household Writing : or the Joys of Carving. Contestation and Renewal in Early Modern Studies: A Conference in Honor of Phyllis Rackin. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Perturbations and Household Practice, Or What s important about Jelly. Seminar paper, Shakespeare Association of America, Montreal, Control in the Kitchen. Seminar paper, Shakespeare Association of America, Miami, Strange Brew: Housewifery and the Body in Early Modern England." Shakespeare Association of America, Montreal, Moderator. "The Cleopatra Witch Project." The Newberry Library, "Queer Housewifery and Domestic Fantasy." Shakespeare Association of America, San Francisco, "Why is Falstaff Fat? Bodies and Body Politics." The Newberry Library, "Zapruder, Intellectual Property and the 1623 Folio." Modern Language Association, San Francisco, "In Memory's Kitchen." South Central Modern Language Association, "Domesticities/Sexualities/Work." Organizer, seminar for Shakespeare Association of America, Cleveland, "Wetnursing the Early Modern English Subject: Friar Bacon and Lactic Fantasies." Solicited paper, The International Shakespeare Association, Los Angeles, "Forgetting and Keeping: Jane Shore and The English Domestication of History." Renaissance Society of America, Bloomington, "Back to the Vernacular: Gammer Gurton's Needle and the Creation of English Experience." Shakespeare Association of America, Chicago, "Mechanical Bodies." Northeastern Modern Language Association, Boston, "Domestic Ideologies in Early Modern England." Organizer and Chair of a Panel for the 17th- Century English Literature Division. Modern Language Association, San Diego, "Englishing and Eroticizing Print: Prose Prefaces and Husbandry." Modern Language Association, Toronto, "'Dark'ning thy pow'r to lend base subjects light': Race in Early Modern England." Shakespeare Association of America, Atlanta, TEACHING AREAS The Art of Reading Renaissance Poetry Renaissance Drama

8 WENDY WALL -- 8 Early Modern English Culture Feminist Theory/Gender Studies Shakespeare PEER REVIEW/PROFESSIONAL WORK WITH ORGANIZATIONS Editor, Renaissance Drama ( ) Nominating Committee, Shakespeare Association of America Steering Committee, Attending to Women Conference, Milwaukee, Board of Trustees Member, Shakespeare Association of America (elected nationally) Program Chair, 2005 meeting of Shakespeare Association of America Open Session, Chair, Shakespeare Association of America Outside examiner, Ph.D. dissertation defense (Univ. of Western Ontario) Reviewer for manuscripts at Blackwell, Palgrave, Cornell, Duke, Stanford, Oxford, Penn, Cambridge. Reviewer for Mosaic, Renaissance Quarterly, Modern Language Quarterly, Signs, JEMCS, Shakespeare Quarterly Reviewer for the Norton Collected Shakespeare ACADEMIC SERVICE 2014 Chair, Search Committee for Dean of Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences 2014 Representative at the ACLS Meeting for Humanities Deans, NY 2014 Lobbyist, National Humanities Advocacy Day, Washington, D.C Director, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern Acting Director, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Budget Committee, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Honorary Degree Committee Strategic Areas of Distinction Subcommittee. Strategic Planning Founder, One Book, One Northwestern. Organized pilot program for campus wide reading initiative, involving over 15 events and 7 courses, now an annual program Chair, English Department, Northwestern Search Committee for Dean of Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Chair, Search Committee (asst. professor in Renaissance Literature) Director, Undergraduate Studies, English Department (also 94-95) College of Arts and Sciences Tenure Committee Graduate Administrative Board Gender Studies, Advisory Board Director, Graduate Studies, English Department Tenure and Promotion Committee Executive Committee, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama COMMUNITY SERVICE/PRESENTATIONS A Rose by Any Other Name: Shakespeare and Plants. Chicago Botanical Garden Spring Show, June, The Scholar in Public: A Symposium on Public Humanities. Chair. Northwestern. May, 2014 How to Do the Regional Humanities, moderator, Chicago Humanities Summit, January, 2014.

9 WENDY WALL -- 9 Shakespeare s Garden. Evanston Garden Club, Sponsor of the Shakespeare Garden at Northwestern, Unhoused. Playnotes for Chicago Shakespeare Theater s production of Othello, Reading Othello. Wilmette Public Library, Shakespeare at the Movies. Alumnae Association lecture, Which Romeo and Juliet? Alumnae Association lecture, Author! Author! Romeo and Juliet in Flux. 12-hour workshop at The Newberry Library for Chicago Public School Teachers, Which Romeo and Juliet? Chicago Shakespeare Theater, all-day workshop for high school teachers, Washing Windsor. Playnotes for Chicago Shakespeare Theater s production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, "Skulls and Memory." Notes, Peter Brooks' production of Hamlet, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, What s so Important about Housework? Fireside, Northwestern University, Remembering Shakespeare. The World President s Organization, "Life and Death in the Kitchen." Northwestern Alumnae Guild, "Dreaming and Popular Culture." Public Forum on A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Chicago Shakespeare Theater, "Love and Wit." Public Forum on Much Ado About Nothing, The Shakespeare Repertory Company, "Gender and Sexuality in The Merchant of Venice." The Newberry Library in conjunction with the Shakespeare Repertory Company, "Shakespeare and the Place of the Theater in Renaissance England." Chicago Women's Group, 1992.