Womens Studies
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Amy Scott-Douglass
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Amy Scott-Douglass, Assistant Professor of English, teaches Early Modern British Literature. Her courses on “First Feminists: Literature by British Women Writers 1600-1800” and “Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Early Modern England” are cross-listed with the Women’s Studies department (the latter is also cross-listed with Black Studies and Queer Studies). Scott-Douglass’s scholarship on women authors and on Shakespeare has appeared in Pretexts (2000), Shakespeare the Movie, Part II (Routledge, 2003), and Cavendish and Shakespeare: Interconnections (Ashgate, 2006), and she is the author of Shakespeare Inside: The Bard Behind Bars (Continuum, 2007), a study of Shakespeare prison programs in the United States. She has won teaching awards at University of Oklahoma and California State University Fullerton and held fellowships at UCLA and Cornell. She is currently finishing a monograph on paratextual materials to literature by women authors from 1600-1800, entitled The Female Preface.
