Penelope Anderson

Penelope Anderson

Associate Professor, English

Affiliate, European Studies

Affiliate, Gender Studies

Affiliate, Renaissance Studies

Education

  • Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley, 2007
  • A.B., English, summa cum laude, Bryn Mawr College, 1998

Journal Articles and Other Publications

Articles

“Feminist Queer Temporalities in Aemelia Lanyer and Lucy Hutchinson.” Co-authored with Whitney Sperrazza. Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World. Ed. Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks. Amsterdam University Press (forthcoming 2018).

“Can a woman deserve the name of enemy? Gender, War, and Law in Katherine Phillips’s Corneille Translations.” Special Issue: Katherine Philips and Other Writers. Eds. Marie-Louise Coolahan and Gillian Wright. Women’s Writing23.4 (2016): 425-444. Reprinted in Katherine Phillips: Form, Reception and Literary Contexts (Routledge, forthcoming 2018). 

“Lucy Hutchinson’s Sodom and the Backward Glance of Queer Feminist Temporality.” Special Issue: Lucy Hutchinson. Ed. David Norbrook. The Seventeenth Century 30.2 (10 August 2015): 249-264.

“‘Friendship Multiplyed’: Royalist and Republican Friendship in Katherine Philips’s Coterie.” Discourses and Representations of Early Modern Friendship, 1500-1700. Eds. Lorna Hutson, Daniel Lochman, and Maritere López. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Press, 2011.

“The Absent Female Friend: Recent Studies in Early Modern Women’s Friendship. Literature Compass, April 2010.

Recent Talks

“The Gendered Lacunae of International Law: The Case of Cymbeline”
- Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Wellington, New Zealand, February 2017

“The Perils of Equality: Just War Doctrine in Margaret Cavendish’s Assaulted and Pursued Chastity and Love’s Adventures
- Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, March 2016

“Women’s Political Writing: The Way Forth” (roundtable)
- Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany, March 2015

“‘Looked upon in the nation as a slave’: Captivity and International Law in the Romances of Hester Pulter and Margaret Cavendish”
- Romance Transformations Conference, Chawton House Library, England, July 2014

“Can a woman deserve the name of enemy? Gender, War, and Law in Katherine Philips’s Corneille Translations”
- Katherine Philips 350 Conference, Dublin, Ireland, June 2014

“Translating Resistance: Echoes of Seneca’s Thyestes in the Seventeenth Century”
- Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New York, NY, March 2014

“Lucy Hutchinson’s Sodom and the Backward Glance of Queer Historiography”
- Lucy Hutchinson Conference, University of Oxford, England, November 2013

“‘Thy prisoner but not thy slave’: Translating Civil and International Wars in the Plays of Katherine Philips”
- Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Seattle, WA, January 2012

“War Within and War Without: Civil and International Wars in the Writings of Katherine Philips”
- University College London Centre for Early Modern Exchanges Launch Conference, London, England, September 2011

Selected Honors and Awards
  • Indiana University Primary Source Immersion Grant, for teaching with archival materials, 2017
  • American Council of Learned Societies Supplementary Summer Fellowship, 2014
  • American Council of Learned Societies Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship, 2013
  • Folger Library Seminar, “Law as Politics in England and the Empire,” Spring 2013
  • Indiana University Institute for European Studies Conference Grant, Spring 2013
  • Indiana University College Arts and Humanities Institute Conference Grant, Spring 2013
  • Indiana University Emergency Grant-in-Aid, Spring 2012
  • Indiana University Trustees’ Teaching Award, 2011
  • Indiana University Institute for European Studies Faculty Research Grant, Summer 2010
  • Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2008
  • Center for British Studies Anglo-California Foundation Fellowship, 2004-2005
  • Bancroft Library Study Award, Summer 2004
  • Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 2000-2001