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Wendy Wall is the Avalon Professor of the Humanities and Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence in the Department of English at Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Her research spans early modern literature and culture, with focuses on gender/sexuality studies, women’s writing, poetry, food studies, theater, and digital humanities. She co-created The Pulter Project, an open-access critical edition of 17th-century poet Hester Pulter’s work, and authored influential books like Recipes for Thought and Staging Domesticity.
- Education: PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania
Her research integrates material culture, textual editing, and interdisciplinary approaches. Recent work explores Hester Pulter’s poetry and the intersections of domestic labor, gender, and early modern identity. Professor Wall’s public humanities initiatives include teaching at Stateville Prison and collaborating with Chicago’s cultural institutions.
Her scholarship has earned prestigious awards, including the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize nomination and the Charles Deering McCormick Professorship. She co-edited Renaissance Drama (1997–2005) and teaches courses on global Shakespeare, Renaissance poetry, and contemporary fiction.
- Key Themes: Domesticity, authorship, print culture, digital humanities, prison education, and feminist literary criticism
