Professor Mihoko Suzuki earned her A.B. in an interdisciplinary major, History and Literature, in the College Scholar Program at Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her scholarship focuses on Renaissance and early modern literature and culture, English and European, with an emphasis on gender and authorship. She is the author of Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference, and the Epic and Subordinate Subjects: Gender, the Political Nation, and Literary Form in England, 1588-1688. In addition, she has edited or coedited six books, mostly on gender in the early modern period, but also on contemporary feminist criticism. She has also edited the writings of and about Mary Carleton and Elizabeth Cellier, as well as coedited a 4-volume collection of printed and manuscript texts, Women’s Political Writings, 1610-1725 and Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2011-17). Her most recent book is volume 3 of the 10-volume Palgrave History of British Women’s Writing (1610-90). Her current research aims to revise the history of political thought, which has heretofore focused almost exclusively on formal treatises written by such thinkers as Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke, by examining the works of early modern women writing in various genres. She is now completing Antigone’s Example: Women's Political Writings in Times of Civil War, centering on the seventeenth-century civil wars in England (1640-1660) and France (1648-53), but also extending forward to the early fifteenth century (Christine de Pizan) and the early nineteenth century (Helen Maria Williams). She has been awarded research fellowships for this project by the Folger Shakespeare Library and the New York Public Library. Suzuki is currently the Vice President and President-elect of the International Margaret Cavendish Society, and has previously served as President of the interdisciplinary Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, and as President of the Women’s Caucus of the Modern Language Association.
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