Degrees

B.A. English with minor in Greek, Vanderbilt (1978)
B.A. Oxon, Literae Humaniores/Classics (1981)
M.A. English, Cornell (1985)
Ph.D. English, Cornell (1989)

Research Area

English renaissance literature and classical antecedants; Italian renaissance literature; the history of rhetoric; the literary and philosophical history of emotion; feminist, literary, and psychoanalytic theory; gender studies

Current Research

"Shakespeare's Schoolroom: Rhetoric, Discipline, Emotion," a book on early modern pedagogy and the Latin grammar school

Current Courses

"Ovid and the Renaissance" (Spring 2006)

Current Positions

Professor of English

Previous Positions

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Yale University (1988-94)
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Yale University (1995-1998)

Professional Societies

Shakespeare Association of America
Modern Language Association

Professional Honors

ACLS, Senior Scholar Research Grant (2003-04)
Folger Shakespeare Library, Short Term Fellow (2003-04)
Visiting fellow and Life Member, Clare College, Cambridge
Outstanding Graduate Professor in Arts and Science (2002-3)
Morse Fellowship for Junior Faculty Research (Yale University, 1991-2)
National Graduate Fellowship (1987-88)
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women's Studies (1986-7)
Andrew Dixon White Fellowship, Cornell University (1981-84)
Rhodes Scholarship, Somerville College, Oxford University (1974-78)
Founder's Medalist in College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University (1978)

Publications

The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare, (Cambridge UP, 2000)
The Tears of Narcissus: Melancholia and Masculinity in Early Modern Writing, (Stanford UP, 1995)
Selected recent articles:
“Rhetoric, Discipline, and the Theatricality of Everyday Life in Elizabethan Grammar Schools,” in From Performance to Print in Shakespeare’s England, eds. Stephen Orgel and Peter Holland (Palgrave: 2006)
“Other Selves, Other Bodies,” co-authored with David Hillman (King’s College, Cambridge), in Shakespeare Studies 33 (2005).
“Psychoanalytic Criticisms of Shakespeare,” Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide, ed. Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin (Oxford University Press, 2003).
“Touching Rhetoric,” in Sensible Flesh: On Touch in Early Modern Culture, ed. Elizabeth Harvey (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003).

Biography

Lynn Enterline received her B.A. from Vanderbilt University and her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from Cornell University. Before coming to Vanderbilt, she taught at Yale University in the departments of English and Comparative Literature. Trained in the English, Italian, Latin, and Greek literary traditions, she construes such historical specialization broadly, addressing 16th and 17th century English dramatic and non-dramatic literature as understood in relation to continental influences, classical antecedents, and contemporary questions in gender studies and literary theory.

Professor Enterline has been at Vanderbilt since 1998 and teaches courses in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature; Shakespeare; Renaissance studies; gender studies; psychoanalysis, feminism, and literary theory.

She currently serves as the Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department.