English Department

Caroline Bicks

english department

Caroline Bicks

Associate Professor


A.B., Harvard University
Ph.D., Stanford University                                  

Carney Hall 429
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Phone: 617-552-1959
Fax: 617-552-4220
Email: bicks@bc.edu

Academic Profile

Specializes in women in early modern culture, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, lyric and epic poetry, history of science, and women writers of the seventeenth century.

Courses

  • EN526.01 - Shakespeare: Early Plays
  • EN593.01 - Advanced Colloquium in Women's Studies

Publications (selected)

Books
  • Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.
  • The History of British Women’s Writing, 1500-1610. Volume 2 of the History of British Women’s Writing. Co-edited with Jennifer Summit (forthcoming, Palgrave).
Articles
  • “Reading the Jesuitess in A Game at Chess,” Studies in English Literature 49.2 (2009): 463-484.
  • “Stones Like Women’s Paps: Revising Gender in Jane Sharp’s Midwives Book,”
    Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 7.2 (2007): 1-27.
  • “Planned Parenthood: Minding the Quick Woman in All’s Well,” Modern Philology 103.3 (2006): 299-331.          
Essays
  • “Gender and Sexuality in Middleton’s plays” (forthcoming in Thomas Middleton in Context, ed. Suzanne Gossett   [Cambridge Univ. Press]).
  • “Instructional Performances: Ophelia and the Staging of History” (forthcoming in Performance and Pedagogy on the Early Modern Stage, ed. Kathryn McPherson and Katherine Moncrief [Ashgate, 2010]).
  • “Producing Girls in Mary Ward’s Convent Schools” (forthcoming in Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood, ed. Naomi Miller and Naomi Yavneh, Aldershot: Ashgate).
  • “Midwiving Virility in Early Modern England.”  Maternal Measures: Figuring Caregivers
    in the Early Modern Period.      Ed. Naomi Miller and Naomi Yavneh. Women and Gender
    in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. 49-64.
  • “Backsliding at Ephesus: Shakespeare’s Diana and the Churching of Women.” Pericles: Critical Essays. Ed. David Skeele. New York: Garland, 2000. 205-227.
Awards
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, Summer 2007.