Chapelle Wojciehowski, Dolora
Associate Professor

Education: Ph.D. Yale 1984
Office Location: PAR 227
Office Hours: TTh 12:00-2:00
Phone: (512) 471-8765
gemelli@mail.utexas.edu

Research Interests: The global sixteenth century; Shakespeare and Renaissance drama; early modern colonialisms; feminist theory and women’s writing; early modern technology and culture; psychoanalytic approaches to literary studies.

Recent Publications:
Books:
The Group, the Individual, and the World: Toward a Collectivist Theory of the Renaissance (in progress).

Old Masters, New Subjects: Early Modern and Poststructuralist Theories of Will (Stanford and London: Stanford University Press, 1995).

Recent Articles:
''Veronica Franco vs. Maffio Venier: Sex, Death, and Poetry in Cinquecento Venice.'' Italica, 2006 (forthcoming).

“Literary Theory,” Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. David Scott Kastan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

''Francis Petrarch: First Modern Friend.'' Texas Studies in Language and Literature, 2005.

“St. Augustine.” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism and Theory. Eds. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth. (Revised for 2nd edition). 1994; Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Review of Birth Passages: Maternity and Nostalgia, Antiquity to Shakespeare. By Theresa M. Krier. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. Xvii+266 pp. (Modern Philology 102, No. 3 ): 410-413.

''Religion, Rivalry, and Relics in 16th-Century Goa: The Destruction and Return of the Dalada.” Manushi, 2004.

Awards and Honors: In 2002, Chapelle Wojciehowski received the Rockefeller Resident Fellowship from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. She has also received fellowships from the Huntington Library in San Marino, California (2001, 2000), and a Pforzheimer Fellowship from the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas (1999).

In 2004-2005, she received the Dads Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship, and she has been nominated for numerous other teaching awards at the University of Texas, including the Raymond Dickson Centennial Teaching Fellowship (2006) and the Lucia, John, and Melissa Gilbert Teaching Excellence Award (2001).