Patricia Akhimie

Patricia Akhimie
Academic background
Alma mater	Columbia University
Thesis	Cultivating Difference in Early Modern Drama and the Literature of Travel  (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, ^[1] 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.

• Akhimie, Patricia (June 1, 2009). "Travel, drama, and domesticity: colonial huswifery in John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's The Sea Voyage" . Studies in Travel Writing. 13 (2): 153–166. doi:10.1080/13645140902866993. ISSN   1364-5145. S2CID   162099715.
• Akhimie, Patricia (2018). Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781351125048. ISBN   978-1-351-12504-8. ^[4]
• Akhimie, Patricia; Andrea, Bernadette (2019). Travel and travail : early modern women, English drama, and the wider world. ISBN   978-1-4962-0226-0. OCLC   1086273325. ^[5]

References

1. "Akhimie, Patricia | Department of English Rutgers University-Newark". ncas.rutgers.edu/academics-admissions/academic-departments/english.
2. Goodwin, Jeremy D. (June 10, 2021). "St. Louis Shakespeare Festival's African 'King Lear' Is Fresh Take On Revered Playwright". STLPR. Retrieved December 17, 2022.
3. "Appointments". The Washington Post; Washington, D.C. November 28, 2022. pp. A.15.
4. Reviews for Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference
   • Laudadio, Daniele (2018). "Review of Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World". Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme. 41 (4): 193–195. doi: 10.7202/1061924ar . ISSN   0034-429X. JSTOR   26644074.
   • "Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
   • Eward-Mangione, Angela (April 19, 2021). "Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World . By Patricia Akhimie" . Shakespeare Quarterly. 70 (4): 297–299. doi:10.1093/sq/quaa019. ISSN   0037-3222.
   • Balizet, Ariane M. (2019). "Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World. Patricia Akhimie. Routledge Studies in Shakespeare 29. London: Routledge, 2018. xii + 220 pp. $149.95". Renaissance Quarterly. 72 (3): 1161–1163. doi: 10.1017/rqx.2019.362 . ISSN   0034-4338. S2CID   204483586.
5. Reviews for Travel and Travail
   • Bicks, Caroline (2020). "Review of Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World". Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England. 33: 309–314. ISSN   0731-3403. JSTOR   26976246.
   • Ferozan, Arazoo (2019). "Review of Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World". Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme. 42 (4): 189–191. doi:10.7202/1068586ar. ISSN   0034-429X. JSTOR   26894257. S2CID   218802591.
   • Khansari, Leighla (2021). "Book Review: Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World. Edited by Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Diane Andrea". Early Modern Literary Studies; Sheffield. 22 (1): 1–6.
   • Campbell, Mary Baine (2020). "Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World. Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Andrea, eds. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. x + 368 pp. $35" . Renaissance Quarterly. 73 (2): 744–745. doi:10.1017/rqx.2020.98. ISSN   0034-4338. S2CID   226410531.