Bernadette Andrea

bernadette.andrea@utsa.edu

Dr. Bernadette Andrea is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at UTSA, where she served as chair of the Department of English, Classics, and Philosophy from 2004 - 2007.She received her PhD from Cornell University, specializing in Renaissance/early modern studies, women's studies, and literary and cultural theory.She also focused on Arabic language and literary studies while at Cornell and during a post-doctoral year at the University of British Columbia.Her publications connect the fields of women's studie, postcolonial studies, and early modern studies.

Books and articles with a women's studies focus include:

Editor, English Women Staging Islam,1696-1707. Forthcoming from Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies/University of Toronto Press.

Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2007.(EMW Book Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, Honorable Mention, 2008).

Editor, Grace Norton (Gethin) and Frances (Freke) Norton(The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works), Series II, Part 2, Volume 9. Ashgate Press, 2003.

Persia, Tartaria, and Pamphilia: Ideas of Asia in Mary Wroth's Urania."Forthcoming in The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia, ed. Walter S. H. Lim and Debra Johanyak.Palgrave MacMillan.

"Islam, Women, and Western Responses:The Contemporary Relevance of Early Modern Investigations." Forthcoming in Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

"English Women and Islamic Empires, 1610-1690."Forthcoming in History of British Women's Writing, 1610-1690, ed. Mihoko Suzuki. Palgrave Macmillan.

"Passage through the Harem: Historicizing a Western Obsession in Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage."Arab Women's Lives Retold: Exploring Identity Through Writing. Ed. Nawar Al-Hassan Golley. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2007.3-15.

"Dialogism between East and West: Halide Edib's Masks or Souls?" Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies Postcolonial Revisions of the Early Modern) 6.2 (Fall/Winter 2006): 5-21.

"Women and Their Rights: Fethullah Gulen's Gloss on Lady Montagu's 'Embassy' to the Ottoman Empire." Muslim Citizens of the Globalized World. Ed. Robert A. Hunt and Yuksel A. Aslandogan.Somerset, NJ: The Light and IID Press, 2006.137-54.

"Lady Sherley: The 'First' Persian in England?"Muslim and Non-Muslim Women in the Empires of Islam, 1453-1798.Special Issue of The Muslim World. Ed.Nabil Matar and Bindu Malieckal.Vol. 95.2 (April 2005): 279-95.

"The Missionary Position: Seventeenth-Century Quaker Women and Global Gender Politics." In-Between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism 11.1 (2002): 71-87.

"Pamphilia's Cabinet: Gendered Authorship and Empire in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania."ELH: English Literary History 68.2 (2001): 335-58.

"Coming Out in Margaret Cavendish's Closet Dramas."In-Between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism 9 (2000): 205-18. (EMW Article Award, Honorable Mention, 2001.)

"Teaching (Early Modern Women's) Writing." Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers.Ed. Susanna Woods and Margaret Hannay. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2000.266-70.

"Black Skin, The Queen's Masques: Africanist Ambivalence and Feminine Author(ity) in the Masques of Blackness and Beauty."English Literary Renaissance 29.2 (1999): 246-81.

Contextual Materials for "To Sions Lovers" by Sarah Jones. Renaissance Women Online (Brown University), 1999.

"Early Modern Women, 'Race,' and (Post)Colonial Writing."ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 27 (1996): 127-49.(Review Essay)

For a more complete list of Professor Andrea's publications, see

http://colfa.utsa.edu/English/andrea.html