Associate Professor; Ph.D. Yale University
m.leslie@neu.edu
Research areas and interests
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and culture. Co-Chair with Diana Henderson (MIT) of the Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar at Harvard Humanities Center.
Selected Publications
Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History
Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (co-edited with Kathleen Kelly)
“Antipodal Anxieties: Joseph Hall, Richard Brome, Margaret Cavendish, and Cartographies of Gender” in Genre
Essays in College English, Utopian Studies, and Semiotic Inquiry