Jessica Wolfe

Jessica Wolfe is the author of Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature, published by Cambridge University Press in 2004. She is currently at work on a second book entitled Homer and the Problem of Strife in the Renaissance; individual chapters of this book examine fifteenth-century Italian humanist scholarship, Erasmus, Rabelais, Edmund Spenser, George Chapman, and Milton and Hobbes. Sections of the chapter on Erasmus have appeared in article form in Renaissance Papers (2003); portions of another chapter, entitled "Spenser, Homer, and the Mythography of Strife," will appear in the spring 2006 edition of Renaissance Quarterly.  Dr. Wolfe's other research interests include the history of science, the history of classical scholarship in the Renaissance, epic and romance, and continental Renaissance literature.

In 2002, Wolfe was awarded the William H. Friday award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Also in fall 2002, Wolfe received the AGES award for mentoring at the M.A. level. Wolfe was selected one of three "superlative" undergraduate teachers at Carolina by the senior class of 2001.

Department of English and Comparative Literature | Greenlaw Hall, CB #3520 | University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
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