Majorie Rubright


Majorie Rubright-profilemrubright@umass.edu

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Marjorie Rubright is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is author of Doppelganger Dilemmas: Anglo-Dutch Relations in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Penn 2014), a study of the forces of similitude and proximity in the creation of ethnicity and race in the early modern world, and co-author of ‘So Long Lives This’: A Celebration of Shakespeare’s Life and Works, 1616-2016 (Toronto 2016), winner of the 2017 Katharine and Daniel Leab Award. She is currently at work on two projects: a monograph entitled, A World of Words: Language, Earth and Embodiment in the Renaissance; and a co-edited collection for Edinburgh University Press entitled, Logomotives: Words that Changed the Premodern World.