B.A., M.A. (University of Toronto); Ph.D. (Stanford)

Elizabeth Pentland specializes in Renaissance literature including Shakespeare. Her dissertation, “Monsieur the Cannibal: Literary Perspectives on the English Engagement with France” considers the impact of Elizabeth I’s controversial marriage negotiations with the Duke of Anjou on English writing between 1579 and 1625. Recent publications include “‘Elizian’ Fields: Elizabeth, Essex, and the Politics of Dissent in 1624,” in Resurrecting Elizabeth I in the Seventeenth Century (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2007). Her essay on Shakespeare’s Illyria, “Beyond the ‘Lyric’ in Illyricum: Some Early Modern Backgrounds to Twelfth Night,” is forthcoming in Twelfth Night: New Critical Essays (Routledge 2007).

Elizabeth Pentland is a Lecturer in English.
Office: 336 Stong College
Telephone: 416-736-2100 ext. 30865
E-mail: pent@yorku.ca

FW 2008/09 Teaching:

AS/EN 2260 3.0M: "Going Far?": Travel Writing in English

AS/EN 3190 6.0A: Shakespeare
AS/EN 4326 6.0A: Redressing the Canon: Plays and Counterplays