Dr. Mary Jo Kietzman (Gifford)
Associate Professor
Campus Phone: (810) 762-3465
E-mail: mkietzma@umflint.edu
Education
Ph.D., Boston College, 1993
B.A., College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, 1985
Specializations/Areas of Interest
16th- and 17th-century Literature -- Dramatic and Nondramatic
17th-century Criminal Culture
Early-Modern Women's Writing
Biography
Travel Narrative
Publications/Current Research
The Self-Fashioning of an Early Modern Englishwoman: Mary Carleton's Lives Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2004.
"'What is Hecuba to Him or (She) to Hecuba': Lucrece's Complaint and Shakepearean Poetic Agency." Modern Philology 97, 1 (August 1999): 21-45.
"Defoe Masters the Serial Subject." English Literary History 66 (1999): 677-705.
"Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters and Cultural Dislocation." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 38, 3 (Summer 1998): 537-51.
"The Fall into Conversation with Eve: Discursive Difference in Paradise Lost." Criticism 39, 1 (Winter 1997): 55-88.
"Publizing Private History: Mary Carleton's Case in Court and in Print." Prose Studies 18, 3 (December 1995): 105-32.
Courses I Teach
Eng 207 Greek and Roman Classical Literature
Eng 241 Elements of Literary Analysis
Eng 299 Encountering Islam
Eng 312 Renaissance Literature
Eng 315 & 316 Reading and Playing Shakespeare
Eng 317 Writing and Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England
Eng 319 Spenser and Milton: Radicals Making a Tradition
Eng 400 Shakespeare's Theory of Drama Reading
Eng 400 Reading Early-Modern Women