Tara Pedersen, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of English
- Literature and Languages Department
- Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 2009
- PHONE: (262) 595-2331
- EMAIL: pedersen@uwp.edu
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Early Modern Literature and Culture
- Shakespeare
- Epistemology
- Embodiment
Tara E. Pedersen received her Ph.D. from The University of California at Davis. She teaches Shakespeare, literature surveys, courses in early modern literature, The Bible as Literature, Women and Literature, Literature of Science and Magic, Composition, Writing for Business and Industry, and Advanced Composition (with a Health Humanities focus). Her research focuses on knowledge production in pre-modern England, and her book, Mermaids and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern England, was published by Ashgate Press in 2015.
Teaching, Research/Creative & Consulting Interests
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Tara E. Pedersen specializes in early modern literature and culture. Her research articulates connections between epistemology and ontology as it focuses on how literature participates in constructing categories of knowledge.
She is the author of Mermaids and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern England, which investigates representations of the mermaid on the early modern stage, as well as "Bodies by the Book: Remapping Reputation in the Account of Anne Greene and Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing". Her current projects explore animacy and its gradations in early modern England.
Consulting Interests
Publications
Selected Publications
2015: Mermaids and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern England, Ashgate
2010: “We shall discover our Selves: Practicing the Mermaid’s Law in Margaret Cavendish’s _The Convent of Pleasure_” , Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Courses Taught
ENGL 201 - Advanced Composition
ENGL 204 - Writing for Business/Industry
ENGL 317 - British Literature, 1500-1700
ENGL 320 - Shakespeare
ENGL 451 - Studies in Literature/Culture:
ENGL 495 - Seminar in Literature:
ENGL 499 - Independent Study:
THEA 320 - Shakespeare
ENGL 204 - Writing for Business/Industry
ENGL 317 - British Literature, 1500-1700
ENGL 320 - Shakespeare
ENGL 451 - Studies in Literature/Culture:
ENGL 495 - Seminar in Literature:
ENGL 499 - Independent Study:
THEA 320 - Shakespeare