Graduate Student Profile

Penelope Geng

Status: ABD

Contact Information

E-mail: pgeng@usc.edu

LINKS

 Personal Website

Education

  • B.A. English, Univ. of Toronto, 06/2005
  • M.A. English, Univ Chicago, 06/2006


Employment History

  • Instructor, Thematic Option Program, USC, 2009 - 2011
  • Assistant Lecturer, Writing Program, USC, 2007 - 2009

Research


Summary Statement of Research Interests


  • Early modern literature (especially Shakespeare and Jonson), law and literature, book history, rhetoric.

Publications


  • Encyclopedia Article
    Geng, P. (2012). "John Marston" (3000 words), "Sir John Davies" (1000 words), "John Dowland" (1000 words). The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. Ed. Garrett Sullivan et al. Blackwell..
     
    Journal Article
    Geng, P. (2012). Before the Right to Remain Silent: The Examinations of Anne Askew and Elizabeth Young. Sixteenth Century Journal. Vol. 43 (3), pp. 667-679.
    Geng, P. (2011). ‘He Only Talks’: Arruntius and the Formation of Interpretive Communities in Ben Jonson’s Sejanus. Ben Jonson Journal. Vol. 18 (1), pp. 126-140.
     

New Courses Developed


  • Close Encounters: Plotting Cultural Difference, Thematic Option, Spring 2011   
  • Revolutions in Reading, Thematic Option, Spring 2010   

Honors and Awards

  • USC Graduate School | Dissertation Fellowship, 2013-2014   
  • USC Graduate School EDGE & APD | Funding Award, Fall 2013   
  • USC English Department | Research Award, 8/2013-9/2013  
  • USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute | Dissertation Fellowship, 2012-2013   
  • USC Interdisciplinary Research Group of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture | Research Fellowship, Fall 2012   
  • Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies at University of Toronto | Visiting Fellowship (non-stipendiary), 4/2012-5/2012  
  • USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute | Summer Fellowship, 6/2011-8/2011  
  • USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute | Summer Fellowship, 5/2010-6/2010  
  • USC Center for Law, History, and Culture | Graduate Fellowship, 9/2009-5/2010  
  • Victoria College, University of Toronto | Mary Coyne Rowell Jackman Graduate Award, 2005-2006   
  • Victoria College, University of Toronto | Regent In-Class Scholarship, 2003-2004   

 

 

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