School of Critical Studies

Dr Jennifer Park

  • Lecturer in Early Modern English (English Literature)

Biography

Jennifer Park (she/her) is Lecturer in Early Modern English in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and previously taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her work intersects critical race, the histories of science and medicine, ecocriticism, new materialisms, and histories of gender and a/sexualities to interrogate power, violence, and exploitation in early modern English literature. Her research has been published in Renaissance and Reformation, Studies in Philology, Performance Matters, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, Shakespeare Quarterly, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, and most recently in PMLA in collaboration with Hillary Eklund, Debapriya Sarkar, and Ayanna Thompson. She is working on a book project that examines how Shakespeare and his contemporaries deployed the language and epistemologies of early modern recipes to craft narratives of racial formation and colonialist justification in English drama. She also joins The Complete Works of Margaret Cavendish team as co-editor with Liza Blake and Jen Boyle of the volume for Cavendish's Observations upon Experimental Philosophy joined to The Blazing World. In addition to her research, her public, disciplinary, and pedagogical commitments are deeply informed by the intersections of critical race and anti-racism, trauma-informed pedagogy, and disability justice, areas in urgent need of attention in early modern and Shakespeare studies, higher education, and beyond. 

Research interests

Early modern English literature, including drama, poetry, and prose; premodern critical race studies; history of science and medicine; feminist technoscience studies; new materialism; ecocriticism; early modern women's writing; gender and a/sexuality; recipe studies; disability studies; book history and the materiality of the text

Research groups

  • Postcolonial/Critical Race Theory
  • Literature & Science
  • Medieval & Early Modern

Publications

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2024

Eklund, Hillary, Park, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5602-7961, Sarkar, Debapriya and Thompson, Ayanna (2024) Becoming undisciplined: on pathways to environmental and racial justice in early modern studies. Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 139(5), pp. 791-805. (doi: 10.1632/S0030812924000683)

Park, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5602-7961 (2024) Artisans of the skin: Recipe studies and race-making in Shakespearean skincrafts. In: Munro, Lucy, Massai, Sonia, Karim-Cooper, Farah, McMullan, Gordon and Espinosa, Ruben (eds.) Shakespeare / Skin: Contemporary Readings in Skin Studies and Theoretical Discourse. Series: Arden Shakespeare intersections. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350261600

Park, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5602-7961 (2024) Shakespeare, race, and science: the study of nature and/as the making of race. In: Akhimie, Patricia (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race. Oxford University Press, pp. 373-394. ISBN 9780192843050 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192843050.013.23)

2023

Park, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5602-7961 (2023) On Shakespeare’s legacy, critical race, and collective futures. Shakespeare Quarterly, 74(3), pp. 264-280. (doi: 10.1093/sq/quad029)

2017

Park, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5602-7961 (2017) Glass bellies and artificial wombs: Gender, science, and reproduction in early modern alchemical performance. Performance Matters, 3(2), pp. 41-56.

2016

Park, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5602-7961 (2016) Discandying Cleopatra: preserving Cleopatra’s infinite variety in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Studies in Philology, 113(3), pp. 595-633.

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Articles

Eklund, Hillary, Park, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5602-7961, Sarkar, Debapriya and Thompson, Ayanna (2024) Becoming undisciplined: on pathways to environmental and racial justice in early modern studies. Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 139(5), pp. 791-805. (doi: 10.1632/S0030812924000683)

Park, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5602-7961 (2023) On Shakespeare’s legacy, critical race, and collective futures. Shakespeare Quarterly, 74(3), pp. 264-280. (doi: 10.1093/sq/quad029)

Park, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5602-7961 (2017) Glass bellies and artificial wombs: Gender, science, and reproduction in early modern alchemical performance. Performance Matters, 3(2), pp. 41-56.

Park, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5602-7961 (2016) Discandying Cleopatra: preserving Cleopatra’s infinite variety in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Studies in Philology, 113(3), pp. 595-633.

Book Sections

Park, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5602-7961 (2024) Artisans of the skin: Recipe studies and race-making in Shakespearean skincrafts. In: Munro, Lucy, Massai, Sonia, Karim-Cooper, Farah, McMullan, Gordon and Espinosa, Ruben (eds.) Shakespeare / Skin: Contemporary Readings in Skin Studies and Theoretical Discourse. Series: Arden Shakespeare intersections. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350261600

Park, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5602-7961 (2024) Shakespeare, race, and science: the study of nature and/as the making of race. In: Akhimie, Patricia (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race. Oxford University Press, pp. 373-394. ISBN 9780192843050 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192843050.013.23)

This list was generated on Sat Jan 31 11:42:38 2026 GMT.

Teaching

  • Secrets of Women (new offering in 2026-2027)
  • Shaping Shakespeare (new offering in 2026-2027)
  • Rethinking the Renaissance 
  • Early Modern Mythmaking 

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