Holly Dugan

Title — Assistant Professor of English

Office — Rome Hall, Room 653

Phone — (202) 994-6180

E-mail — hdugan@gwu.edu

Current Research

Holly Dugan’s research and teaching interests explore relationships between history, literature, and material culture. Her scholarship focuses on questions of gender, sexuality, and the boundaries of the body in late medieval and early modern England. She is currently working on a book-length project, co-authored with Scott Maisano, that examines the pre-modern history of primatology through the lens of Shakespeare.

Publications

The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming fall 2011).

“Shakespeare and the Senses,” Blackwell Literature Compass 6.3 (2009), 726-40.

“Scent of a Woman: Performing the Politics of Smell in Early Modern England,” The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 38.2 (2008), 229-252.

“Coriolanus and the ‘rank-scented meinie’: Smelling Rank in Early Modern England, Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice: London, 1550-1750, eds. Roze Hentschell and Amanda Bailey (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 139-159. 

“Osmologies of Luxury and Labor: entertaining perfumers in early English drama,” Working Subjects in Early Modern Drama, eds. Natasha Korda and Michelle Dowd (London: Ashgate), forthcoming 2011.

Rev. of Kathryn M. Moncrief and Kathryn R. McPherson, eds., Performing Maternity in Early Modern England. Ashgate Press, 2007. Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 61, issue 3 (Fall 2008), 1023-24.

Rev. of Will Fisher, Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture.  Cambridge University Press, 2006.  Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 60, issue 2 (Summer 2007), 671-72.

Rev. of Natasha Korda, Shakespeare’s Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England.  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Criticism, vol. 45, issue 4 (Fall 2003), 539-542.