Jan Purnis
Assistant Professor
English
University of Regina
Canada
Biography
Selected Publications and Notable Accomplishments Dissertation: Digestive Tracts: Early Modern Discourses of Digestion (Awarded the Clifford Leech Dissertation Prize by the University of Toronto Department of English and Centre for the Study of Drama). “The Gendered Stomach in The Taming of the Shrew” in Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500-1700, edited by David Wootton and Graham Holderness (Palgrave, 2010). “The Stomach and Early Modern Emotion.” University of Toronto Quarterly 79.2 (Spring 2010).. “Shakespeare’s Second Brain: The Brain-Belly Relationship in Early Modern Culture” (a contribution to a collection tentatively entitled The Body in Mind, edited by Laurie Johnson, John Sutton, and Evelyn Tribble). I am just finishing a chapter on early modern emotions theory for an interdisciplinary collection, Emotions in Context, scheduled for submission to UTP this fall.
Research Interest
Cannibalism; Digestion; Early Modern Emotions; Body/Mind Relationship; Colonialism; Gender; Early Modern Medicine; Wordplay; Shrews; Sugar
