Patricia Akhimie

Professor of English

Patricia Akhimie is an associate professor Rutgers University who is known for her work on early modern women's travel writing and Shakespearean writing.

Education and career

Akhimie has a B.A. from Princeton University (2000), an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan (2002), an M.A. (2003) and a Ph.D.(2011) from Columbia University.^[1] Akhimie has served as the scholar-in-residence for the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival.^[2] As of 2022, she is an associate professor at Rutgers University in the departments of English, women's and gender studies,^[1] and she was named director of the Folger Institute in November 2022.^[3]

Selected publications

Her first book, Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race, Conduct, and the Early Modern World was published by Routledge in 2018. Her co-edited collection (with Bernadette Andrea), Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2019.

• Akhimie, Patricia (2009-06-01). "Travel, drama, and domesticity: colonial huswifery in John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's The Sea Voyage". Studies in Travel Writing. 13 (2): 153–166. doi:10.1080/13645140902866993. ISSN 1364-5145. S2CID 162099715.
• Akhimie, Patricia (2018-01-12). Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781351125048. ISBN 978-1-351-12504-8.^[4]
• Akhimie, Patricia; Andrea, Bernadette (2019). Travel and travail : early modern women, English drama, and the wider world. ISBN 978-1-4962-0226-0. OCLC 1086273325.^[5]

References

1. "Akhimie, Patricia | Department of English Rutgers University-Newark". ncas.rutgers.edu/academics-admissions/academic-departments/english.
2. Goodwin, Jeremy D. (2021-06-10). "St. Louis Shakespeare Festival's African 'King Lear' Is Fresh Take On Revered Playwright". STLPR. Retrieved 2022-12-17.
3. "Appointments". The Washington Post; Washington, D.C. [Washington, D.C]. 28 Nov 2022. pp. A.15 – via ProQuest.
4. Reviews for Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference
   • LAUDADIO, DANIELE (2018). "Review of Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World". Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme. 41 (4): 193–195. doi:10.7202/1061924ar. ISSN 0034-429X. JSTOR 26644074.
   • "Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2022-10-22.
   • Eward-Mangione, Angela (2021-04-19). "Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World . By Patricia Akhimie". Shakespeare Quarterly. 70 (4): 297–299. doi:10.1093/sq/quaa019. ISSN 0037-3222.
   • Balizet, Ariane M. (2019). "Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World. Patricia Akhimie. Routledge Studies in Shakespeare 29. London: Routledge, 2018. xii + 220 pp. $149.95". Renaissance Quarterly. 72 (3): 1161–1163. doi:10.1017/rqx.2019.362. ISSN 0034-4338. S2CID 204483586.
5. Reviews for Travel and Travail
   • Bicks, Caroline (2020). "Review of Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World". Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England. 33: 309–314. ISSN 0731-3403. JSTOR 26976246.
   • FEROZAN, ARAZOO (2019). "Review of Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World". Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme. 42 (4): 189–191. doi:10.7202/1068586ar. ISSN 0034-429X. JSTOR 26894257. S2CID 218802591.
   • Khansari, Leighla (2021). "Book Review: Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World. Edited by Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Diane Andrea". Early Modern Literary Studies; Sheffield. 22 (1): 1–6 – via ProQuest.
   • Campbell, Mary Baine (2020). "Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World. Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Andrea, eds. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. x + 368 pp. $35". Renaissance Quarterly. 73 (2): 744–745. doi:10.1017/rqx.2020.98. ISSN 0034-4338. S2CID 226410531.