Jennifer Munroe

Education

• Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, 2004
• M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, 2000
• B.A., University of Wyoming, 1997

Areas of Interest

• Early modern English literature, especially women writers
• Literature and the Environment
• Literature and Science
• Film Studies (especially gender and film)

Current Projects

Mothers of Science: Women, Nature, and Writing in Early Modern English Literature. An ecofeminist literary history of science that examines how the relationship between women and nature in seventeenth-century England made possible women’s marginalization from developing scientific discourse at the same time women used this connection to empower themselves in knowledge-making practices.

Selected Publications and Presentations

Books

• Laroche, Rebecca and Jennifer Munroe. Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory. Bloomsbury, 2017.
• Bruckner, Lynne, Jennifer Munroe, and Ed Geisweidt, ed. Ecological Approaches to Early Modern Texts: A Field Guide to Reading and Teaching, Ashgate Press, 2015.
• Munroe, Jennifer (editorial consultant). Shakespeare and Ecocriticism. Columbia, SC: Layman Poupard Publishing, LLC (part of Shakespearean Criticism series), 2014.
• Munroe, Jennifer and Rebecca Laroche (Munroe lead author). “Pest Control.” Ed. Joseph Campana and Keith Botelho. Lesser Living Creatures: Insect Life in the Renaissance. Penn State University Press (forthcoming).
• Munroe, Jennifer and Rebecca Laroche, ed. Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
• Gender and the Garden in Early Modern English Literature. Ashgate Press, 2008.
• Making Gardens of Their Own: Gardening Manuals For Women, 1500-1750. Series III. Early Englishwomen in Print. Ashgate Press, 2007.

Articles

• Munroe, Jennifer. “Women and Gardens.” Women Writers Online. Part of “30 Years, 30 Ideas” Series in Women Writers in Context.

• Munroe, Jennifer and Rebecca Laroche. “Ecofeminist Studies.” Ed. Evelyn Gajowski. Arden Research Handbook to Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism. Arden/Bloomsbury (forthcoming).

• Laroche, Rebecca and Jennifer Munroe (equal co-authorship). “Teaching Environmental Justice and Early Modern Texts: The ‘Co’ in Collaboration.” Ed. Wendy Beth Hyman and Hillary Eklund. Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare. Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming).

• Munroe, Jennifer. “Digital Studies At the Margins: Manuscript Sources and Inclusivity.” Shakespeare Newsletter 67(2) 2018: 80-81.

• Rebecca Laroche, Elaine Leong, Jennifer Munroe, Hillary M. Nunn, Lisa Smith, and Amy L. Tigner (Laroche lead author; others equal co-authorship). “Becoming Visible: Recipes in the Making.” Early Modern Studies Journal. 13(1) 2018: 132-142.
• Munroe, Jennifer. “Shakespeare and Ecocriticism Reconsidered.” Literature Compass 12.9 (2015): 461-70.
• Munroe, Jennifer. “Is It Ecocritical If It Isn’t Feminist?” Ed. Jennifer Munroe, Lynne Bruckner, and Ed Geisweidt. Ecological Approaches to Early Modern Texts. Ashgate Press, 2015 (37-50).
• Munroe, Jennifer and Rebecca Laroche. “On a Bank of Rue; or Material Ecofeminist Inquiry and the Garden of Richard II, Act III, scene iv.” (Shakespeare Studies, 2013).
• Munroe, Jennifer. “’My innocent diversion of gardening’: Mary Somerset’s Plants.” Renaissance Studies 25: 111-23 (2011). Reprinted in Locus Amoenus. Ed. Alexander Samson. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, pp. 111-123.
• Munroe, Jennifer and Rebecca Laroche, ed. “Introduction.” Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 (1-14).
• Munroe, Jennifer. “First ‘Mother of Science’: Milton’s Eve, Knowledge, and Nature” In Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity. Ed. Jennifer Munroe and Rebecca Laroche. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 (37-54).
• Munroe, Jennifer. “It’s all about the gillyvors: Engendering Art and Nature in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.” In Ecocritical Shakespeare, ed. Lynne Bruckner and Daniel Brayton. Ashgate Press, 2011 (139-54).