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Kirsten Mendoza

Associate Professor, Associate Director of Human Rights Studies

Full-Time Faculty

College of Arts and Sciences: English, Human Rights Studies

Contact

Email: Kirsten Mendoza

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
  • M.A., Loyola University Chicago
  • B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Profile

Kirsten N. Mendoza is Associate Professor of English and Human Rights. Her work focuses on drama, poetry and literature of the 16th and 17th century. Her research has been supported with grants from the Huntington Library, Newberry Library, the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Folger Shakespeare Library. 

Courses commonly taught

  • Shakespeare Seminar
  • Survey of Early English Literature
  • Literature and Human Rights

Selected honors and grants

  • WiBN Woman to Watch Class of 2025
  • Stevens Award for Best New Essay in Drama Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society, 2022
  • Seed Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Dayton, 2019
  • Woman of Remarkable Distinction Award, WORD Campus Group, University of Dayton, 2019
  • Dissertation Completion Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2017-18
  • Robert Ransom Myers Distinguished Doctoral Student Award, English Dept. at Vanderbilt, 2018
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, College of A&S, Vanderbilt, 2017

Selected publications

“Privilege, Possession, and the Politics of Remembrance in Doctor Faustus ” in Norton Critical Edition of Doctor Faustus, edited by David Scott Kastan and Matthew Hunter (New York: W.W. Norton, 2023) 

‘Now I take you’: Approaches to Teaching Arden of Faversham,” in Arden of Faversham: A Critical Reader, edited by Duncan Salkeld and Peter Kirwan, The Arden Shakespeare (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023)

“Thou maiest inforce my body but not mee”: Racializing Consent in John Marston’s The Wonder of Women, or The Tragedy of Sophonisba,” Renaissance Drama, vol. 49, no. 1, 2021, pp. 29-55.

“Shakespeare, Race, and Human Rights” in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, edited by Patricia Akhimie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024)