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Teresa Prendergast
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Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast specializes in early modern English Literature, with particular interest in gender studies, cultural studies, and aesthetics. She earned her B.A. at Yale University (1977) and her M.A. (1983) and Ph.D. (1990) from the University of Virginia. She is the author of Renaissance Fantasies: the Gendering of Aesthetics in Early Modern Fiction (2000). She has also published articles on Shakespeare and Sir Philip Sidney, as well as on early modern prose, poetry and drama. She is currently working on a book-length project, titled "'Speak and Be Hang'd': the Anti-Aesthetics of Early Modern Plays and Pamphlets."

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