Jessica Wolfe

Associate Professor of English & Comp Literature (3225); Assistant Department Chair

417 Greenlaw , UNC Chapel Hill
Campus Box 3520
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
919-962-9895 (work)
919-682-4847 (home)
919-962-3520 (fax)
wolfej@unc.edu

B.A. Bryn Mawr College, 1992
Ph.D. Stanford University, 2000

Research Interests

Jessica Wolfe is the author of Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2004). She is currently completing a second book, entitled "Homer and the Problem of Strife in the Renaissance." Portions of this book have been published in Renaissance Papers (2003), in Renaissance Quarterly (Winter 2005), and in a special volume of College Literature devoted to the reception of Homer (Fall 2008). Professor Wolfe has recently completed an essay on The Faerie Queene for the Blackwell Companion to Tudor Literature; additional projects include an article for the MLA Approaches to Teaching Milton's Paradise Lost ("Paradise Lost and the Epic Tradition") and an article for the Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare ("Shakespeare and the Classics"). She is also a contributor to the Oxford History of Classical Relations to English Literature (OHCREL), for which she will be writing an article on the reception of Homer in early modern England.

Courses Offered (as schedules allow)

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Professor Wolfe's teaching interests include the history of science, the history of the book, the history of classical scholarship in the Renaissance, epic and romance, and continental Renaissance literature.

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