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Anne Greenfield is a Professor of English, specializing in Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature. Dr. Greenfield’s current research focuses on depictions of rape and attempted rape in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature, particularly drama, which is the subject of her recent monograph, The Rise and Fall of Rape on the English Stage: 1660-1720 (Routledge 2025). Dr. Greenfield is Editor-In-Chief of the journal Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research.

Dr. Greenfield regularly teaches a variety of English courses, including introductory courses, World Literature and British literature surveys, upper-division seminars on eighteenth-century literature, and graduate courses. Dr. Greenfield is also the Graduate Coordinator for the English department’s M.A. and M.A.E.S.L.A.T. programs, as well as Faculty Advisor to 麻豆视频’s undergraduate research journal, Omnino.

Select Publications:

Books:

Monograph: The Rise and Fall of Rape on the English Stage: 1660-1720. New York and London: Routledge, 2025.

Edited Collection: Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century. Edited by Anne Greenfield. New York and London, Routledge, January 2020. “Unmanning” (pp. 1-17)

Edited Collection: Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660-1800. Edited by Anne Greenfield. London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers, September 2013. Republished by Routledge in 2014 (hardback) and 2016 (paperback). “Introduction” (pp. 1-11) “The Titillation of Dramatic Rape: 1660-1720” (pp.57-68)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

“Introduction: Teaching Tough Texts.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Johns Hopkins University Press, vol. 50 (2021): 215-16.

“Eunuchs in London Theatre.” Comparative Drama, vol. 53, no.1, Spring and Summer 2019. 1-29.

“Veiled in the Seraglio: Whig Messaging in Mary Pix’s Tragedy Ibrahim.” Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. III – Images of the Harem in Literature and Theatre. Edited by Michael Hüttler, Emily Kugler, and H.E. Weidinger. Vienna: Hollitzer, 2015. 49-64.

“D’Avenant’s Lady Macduff: Ideal Femininity and Subversive Politics.” Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 37.1 (spring 2013): 39-60.

“The Question of Marital Rape in Rowe’s Tamerlane.” Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 26.1-2 (winter/summer 2011): 57-72.

“Letting Only a Few Flowers Fall upon Her Tomb: Virginia Woolf and Aphra Behn.” Virginia Woolf Bulletin of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain 30 (January 2009): 20-32.

“When Sultan Becomes Rapist: The Politics of Rape in Orientalist Drama.” Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 21.2 (winter 2006): 59-73.

Encyclopedia Entries:

“The Perfidious Guardian, or Vicissitudes of Fortune, Exemplified in the History of Lucretia Lawson (1790).” Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. Edited by April London. Cambridge University Press, 2020. In Press.

“The Precipitate Choice, or The History of Lord Ossory and Miss Rivers (1772).” Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. Ed. April London. Cambridge University Press, 2020. In Press.

Theatre Reviews:

Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals, directed by Aaron Posner, American Players Theatre, Hill Theatre, Spring Green, WI, July 10, 2022. In Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, vol. 34, 2022.

Book Reviews:

Julie Peakman’s Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture. In The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats, 2020.

Christopher J. Wheatley’s (ed.) Drama in English. From the Middle Ages to the Early Twentieth Century. In Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 31.2 (winter 2016 issue, published fall 2018).

Elaine M. McGirr’s Partial Histories: A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber. In Studies in Theatre and Performance. Fall 2017.

Jessica L. Malay’s The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson: Her Story of Marital Abuse and Defiance in 17th c. England. In The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 48.2-49.1 (2016): 163-65.

Randall Martin’s Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England. In Appositions: Studies in Renaissance / Early Modern Literature and Culture 4 (summer 2011).

Richard Kroll’s Restoration Drama and “The Circle of Commerce”: Tragicomedy, Politics, and Trade in the Seventeenth Century. In Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 23.1 (summer 2008): 88-90