Jennifer Park is a scholar of early modern English literature. She has taught at the University of Glasgow and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro after receiving her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her B.A. from Yale University. Her research  intersects critical race, the histories of science and medicine, ecocriticism, new materialisms, and histories of gender and a/sexualities to interrogate power, violence, and exploitation in early modern English literature. Her work has been published in Renaissance and Reformation, Studies in Philology, Performance Matters, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, Shakespeare Quarterly, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, and most recently in PMLA in collaboration with Hillary Eklund, Debapriya Sarkar, and Ayanna Thompson. She is working on a book project that examines how Shakespeare and his contemporaries deployed the language and epistemologies of early modern recipes to craft narratives of racial formation and colonialist justification in English drama. She also joins The Complete Works of Margaret Cavendish team as co-editor with Liza Blake and Jen Boyle of the volume for Cavendish's Observations upon Experimental Philosophy joined to The Blazing World. In addition to her research, her public, disciplinary, and pedagogical commitments are deeply informed by the intersections of critical race and anti-racism, trauma-informed pedagogy, and disability justice, areas in urgent need of attention in early modern and Shakespeare studies, higher education, and beyond. 

*Note*: I am in ongoing recovery from post-COVID syndrome, and I thank you in advance for your patience.

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