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Dr. Amelia Zurcher is a Professor of English and Director of the University Honors Program at Marquette University, part of the Klingler College of Arts & Sciences. Her research focuses on Renaissance and seventeenth-century British literature with emphases on genre, historiography, narrative, and gender. She has authored Seventeenth-Century English Romance: Allegory, Ethics, and Politics (2007) and edited Judith Man’s An Epitome of the Historie of Faire Argenis and Poliarchus (2003). Her work explores themes like political ideologies, gender roles, and literary form in early modern texts.
Dr. Zurcher teaches courses on Shakespeare, early modern literature, gender studies, and literary theory. She directs Marquette’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program, overseeing introductory and capstone courses. Her scholarship spans topics such as trauma in women’s spiritual writing, Boyle family networks, and comparative analyses of Shakespearean plays with classical influences.
Her honors include the Marquette University Teaching Excellence Award (2008), Mellon Fellowship (2002–2003), and Whiting Fellowship (1993–1994). She is actively involved in academic leadership, bridging literary analysis with interdisciplinary feminist and historical methodologies.
