https://www.lizfox.net/blog daily 0.75 2020-07-28 https://www.lizfox.net/blog/grounded-knowledge-bees monthly 0.5 2020-07-28 https://www.lizfox.net/blog/saa2021 monthly 0.5 2020-07-28 https://www.lizfox.net/upcoming-events daily 0.75 2023-03-27 https://www.lizfox.net/upcoming-events/teaching-shakespeare-in-a-womens-prison monthly 0.5 2023-03-27 https://www.lizfox.net/upcoming-events/mapping-terroir-memory-myth monthly 0.5 2022-11-30 https://www.lizfox.net/upcoming-events/grounded-knowledge-terroir monthly 0.5 2022-11-30 https://www.lizfox.net/upcoming-events/foraged-kitchen-garden-herbaria-opening-reception monthly 0.5 2022-11-30 https://www.lizfox.net/upcoming-events/tru9pnnt7wfqe81dlae0r1evwlqpi8 monthly 0.5 2022-07-21 https://www.lizfox.net/upcoming-events/taming-the-shrew-the-power-of-submission-and-the-politics-of-equity-in-prison-education monthly 0.5 2022-02-25 https://www.lizfox.net/upcoming-events/grounded-knowledge-preservation monthly 0.5 2020-10-19 https://www.lizfox.net/upcoming-events/event-four-4txja monthly 0.5 2020-08-27 https://www.lizfox.net/upcoming-events/event-one-w6747 monthly 0.5 2020-10-19 https://www.lizfox.net/contact daily 0.75 2025-02-04 https://www.lizfox.net/teaching daily 0.75 2025-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e63db9896f43f400a7ed2f9/1594204574157-TDSORR996CXB5YHGK8PK/image-asset.jpeg Teaching - Intersecting Shakespeare: Rage, Gender, & Invisible Labor Placing our texts within their cultural, economic, historical, and social contexts, this course thinks transhistorically about how Shakespeare challenged, perpetuated, satirized, and subverted early modern gender norms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e63db9896f43f400a7ed2f9/1588279372824-E3OUMQ5JGC5B0GYJ0E5H/AHARNIG_10313997195.jpg Teaching - Family Drama This introduction to literature course investigates the fictional family as a reflection of social order and power dynamics of citizenship. Although the nuclear family is frequently idealized by popular culture, fictional representations of families are often far less than ideal. Image: Kenneth A. Kerslake. The Immigrants. 2003. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e63db9896f43f400a7ed2f9/1603278969651-QHOXFAELMMY9E2AGFV5N/image-asset.jpeg Teaching - Civic Identities & the Politics of Belonging This upper-level course examines the city comedy genre through the work of non-canonical but popular playwrights such as Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, and John Marston, to investigate how this genre constructs, defines, and dismantles ideologies of familiar and strange through representations of London and its denizens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e63db9896f43f400a7ed2f9/1590790771858-CKGHVCESF9CB7OFDQCO7/Copy%2525252Bof%2525252BROE%2525252B-%2525252BHeader.jpg Teaching - Intro to British Literature: Adventure & Empire This course inquires how national and literary identities emerge through popular media by surveying British adventure and travel narratives alongside excerpts from contemporary superhero narratives. https://www.lizfox.net/who-i-teach daily 0.75 2020-05-29 https://www.lizfox.net/why-i-teach daily 0.75 2020-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e63db9896f43f400a7ed2f9/1590790901885-1RSWDGXAJQ66YYY0VLUK/BEH_2348.jpg Why I teach - Why I teach I am the first person in my family to complete an undergraduate degree, let alone earn their Master’s and PhD. Because of my experiences and the obstacles I have faced as a first-generation undergraduate and graduate student, I am invested in mentoring underrepresented and underserved students both in and beyond the classroom to promote a more vibrant and inclusive intellectual community. Regardless of where I teach—in a university, prison, online, or in a community-based classroom—I am open about my experience as a first-generation student. I invite conversations about the unique challenges to first generation learners to encourage my students who may feel as I once did, who doubt their ability to remain enrolled in college, and who struggle through the emotional and intellectual work of pursuing higher education. https://www.lizfox.net/pagecv-1 daily 0.75 2025-02-03 https://www.lizfox.net/home daily 1.0 2025-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e63db9896f43f400a7ed2f9/1595877261254-CKZJS211KOCSSAY47A3Z/BEH_2348.jpg Home Liz Fox is the Arts and Academic Programs Coordinator at the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and she is Managing Editor of English Literary Renaissance. Liz also teaches courses on early modern drama and culture, gender and sexuality studies, and material culture that feature transhistorical approaches to Renaissance studies across a diverse range of non-traditional academic settings. Her edited collection, Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration, brings together theater artists, currently and formerly incarcerated actors, and college-in-prison educators and students for a timely consideration of how Shakespeare shows up in prison. Contributors describe powerful encounters in classrooms and rehearsal rooms as they explore the complexity of “prison Shakespeare” within a racially charged system of over-incarceration and grapple with the challenges of liberatory practices in carceral spaces. https://www.lizfox.net/public-humanities daily 0.75 2025-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e63db9896f43f400a7ed2f9/1595621735200-NTN9W24DP4TNY4UBL7AU/image-asset.jpeg Public Humanities - Grounded Knowledge Co-organizer This workshop series is inspired by the desire to link hands-on practice with literary and historical knowledge production. Grounded Knowledge Workshops bring together local artists, farmers, herbalists, and chefs with students and scholars to explore connections between the Renaissance Kitchen Garden and Apple Orchard and rare book collection. Upcoming workshops include a focus on: seed stories in global landscapes, women’s production of herbal remedies and medical knowledge, fermented fruits and cider making, and distillation: pigments, perfumes, and syrups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e63db9896f43f400a7ed2f9/7db5ef4b-a1e0-4648-b3ff-7ad4512a73f1/22110_161.jpg Public Humanities - Renaissance of the Earth The Renaissance of the Earth is a series of interdisciplinary research collaborations, undergraduate and graduate courses, hands-on workshops, conferences, and arts programming that consider how the early modern past helps us reshape our environmental future. https://www.lizfox.net/research daily 0.75 2025-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e63db9896f43f400a7ed2f9/104148e2-f3ec-4d8b-b87c-8b6967a29d00/Screenshot+2024-08-18+at+7.01.05%E2%80%AFPM.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e63db9896f43f400a7ed2f9/1593538870694-82BOVB180QZ87AJLGCGH/Gerard_van_Honthorst_-_The_procuress_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Research - Cosmopolitan Desire & Profitable Performance in The Dutch Courtesan The Dutch Courtesan offers a reflection on the uses of seduction and desire in commercial culture. The eponymous courtesan, Franceschina, circulates among a variety of foreign clientele, performing suggestively on her lute; the native conman, Cocledemoy, accumulates wealth through a range of foreign disguises, tricking the gullible with his costumes. Their cosmopolitan appeal to a diverse set of consumers illustrates the dangers of excessive desire as the fashion for foreign commodities intensified in the period. This essay argues that the play itself is also a commodity that capitalizes on the similar fascinations of London audiences. Franceschina and Cocledemoy’s explicitly theatrical performances both display and satirize the ways in which salesmanship—seduction and trickery—preys on consumer interests to fuel commerce in the global marketplace. Awarded honorable mention for best interpretive essay published in Early Theatre volumes 22 and 23.