Patricia Akhimie Explained

Alma Mater:Columbia University
Thesis Title:Cultivating Difference in Early Modern Drama and the Literature of Travel
Thesis Url:https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/926026945
Thesis Year:2011

Patricia Akhimie is an associate professor Rutgers University who is known for her work on early modern women's travel writing and Shakespearean writing.

Education and career

Akhimie has a B.A. from Princeton University (2000), an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan (2002), an M.A. (2003) and a Ph.D.(2011) from Columbia University.[1] Akhimie has served as the scholar-in-residence for the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival.[2] As of 2022, she is an associate professor at Rutgers University in the departments of English, women's and gender studies, and she was named director of the Folger Institute in November 2022.[3]

Selected publications

Her first book, Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race, Conduct, and the Early Modern World was published by Routledge in 2018. Her co-edited collection (with Bernadette Andrea), Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2019.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Akhimie, Patricia Department of English Rutgers University-Newark . ncas.rutgers.edu/academics-admissions/academic-departments/english.
  2. Web site: Goodwin . Jeremy D. . 2021-06-10 . St. Louis Shakespeare Festival's African 'King Lear' Is Fresh Take On Revered Playwright . 2022-12-17 . STLPR . en.
  3. News: 28 Nov 2022 . Appointments . A.15 . The Washington Post; Washington, D.C. [Washington, D.C] . ProQuest.
  4. Reviews for Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference
  5. Reviews for Travel and Travail

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