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Sigrid King, PhD, is a Professor of English at 麻豆精品. She teaches Modern British Literature, Shakespeare in the 21st Century, Crime Fiction, Visions of Social Change: Global Women Writers, Myths and Monsters, Literature of Illness and Healing, Women and Film, and The Art of Healing for the Doctorate in Physical Therapy program. She is the recipient of CIC Humanities for the Public Good grants in 2022-23 and 2023-2024, for which she designed and taught a course in which undergraduate students learn how to do research in the International Poetry Forum archives.

She is the editor of Pilgrimage for Love, published by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and the author of articles book chapters, and conference papers on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Geoffrey Chaucer鈥檚 Shipman, Early Modern literature, global women writers, and censorship. She is the recipient of the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Sisters of Mercy Award for Excellence in Advising.

Education

• PhD – English, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA (1994)
• MA – English, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA (1989)
• BS – English Secondary Education, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA (1983)

Professional Memberships

• Association of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
• Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association 
• National Women鈥檚 Studies Association
• Shakespeare Association of America

Research

Interests: Global Women Writers; Crime Fiction; Renaissance/Early Modern Literature; Mythology; Interdisciplinary Studies

Publications

• 鈥淭he Shipman鈥� The Chaucer Encyclopedia, John Wiley & Sons, West Sussex, UK, 2023.
• 鈥淭radition and Subversion in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo鈥� rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism: Stieg Larsson. Gale/Cengage Learning. 2021.
• 鈥淭radition and Subversion in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo鈥� Studies in Crime Fiction, vol. 1, issue 1, 2018.
• 鈥淐hitra Banerjee Divakaruni鈥檚 `The Ultrasound鈥�: Writing Like a Global/Transnational Feminist.鈥� Spectrum. 2010. 6-12.
• Public Policy Column. Viewpoints. (AAUW newsletter鈥擯ittsburgh branch). 2009-2010.
• 鈥淣aming and Power in Zora Neale Hurston鈥檚 Their Eyes Were Watching God.鈥� rpt. in Bloom鈥檚 Modern Critical Interpretations: Zora Neale Hurston鈥檚 Their Eyes Were Watching God. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2008. 57-70.
• 鈥淕iovanni Boccaccio.鈥� Arthurian Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Eds. Laura Cooner Lambdin and Robert Thomas Lambdin. Westport, CN: Greenwood, 2008. 110-119.
• 鈥淭eaching Global Social Justice Issues at a Catholic Institution.鈥� Connections (publication of the National Association of Women in Catholic Higher Education). 15.1 Fall 2006. 5-7.
• 鈥淕iovanni Boccaccio.鈥� DLB: Arthurian Legends. Westport Connecticut: Greenwood, 2003.
• 鈥淟yric Poetry.鈥� A Companion to Old and Middle English Literature. Eds. Robert T. Lambdin and Laura Cooner Lambdin. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2002: 299-314. Print.
• 鈥淭he Medieval Lyric.鈥� An Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature. Eds. Robert T. Lambdin and Laura Cooner Lambdin. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2000. 361-376. (This book was named Outstanding Academic Text by CHOICE in 2002).
• Pilgrimage for Love: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of Josephine A. Roberts. Tempe, Arizona: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1999.
• 鈥淣aming and Power in Zora Neale Hurston鈥檚 Their Eyes Were Watching God.鈥� Rpt. in Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston. Ed. Gloria L. Cronin. New York: G. K. Hall, 1998. 115-127.
• 鈥淎mazons,鈥� 鈥淐ensorship,鈥� 鈥淐ourtship,鈥� and 鈥淪entimentality.鈥� Feminist Literary Theory: A Dictionary. New York: Garland, 1997.
• 鈥淭he Shipman.鈥� Chaucer鈥檚 Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims of The Canterbury Tales. Eds. Robert T. Lambdin and Laura Lambdin. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1996
• 鈥淔rom skateboards to Shakespeare: Intellectual Complexity on The Simpsons.鈥� Career Choices. 1996. [Co-authored with Rebecca Stephens].
• 鈥淣aming and Power in Zora Neale Hurston鈥檚 Their Eyes Were Watching God.鈥� Black American Literature Forum 24 (Winter 1990): 683-696. [Renamed African American Review in 1992.
• 鈥淪exual Politics and Power in Aphra Behn鈥檚 The Rover.鈥� Proceedings of the LSU/TAMU Conference on Languages and Literature. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1991.

Awards & Recognition

• Recipient, CIC/Humanities Research for the Public Good Sustaining Grant for Work with the International Poetry Forum Archives (2022 – 2023)
• Recipient, CIC/Humanities Research for the Public Good Grant for work with the International Poetry Forum archives (2021 – 2022)
• Recipient, CIC/Center for Hellenic Studies Grant for the Greek Hero Seminar (2019)
• Recipient, Sabbatical Grant for Research at the British Library, London
• Recipient, Fides Grant for Research at the Chicago History Museum
• Recipient, Competitive Release Time Grant,
• Recipient, Capozzi-Kirr Research Grant for Research at the Folger Shakespeare Library
• Competitive Release Time Grant
• Sabbatical Grant for Research at the University of London
• Sisters of Mercy Award for Excellence in Advising
• President鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Teaching