Jean E. Feerick

Jean E. Feerick is Associate Professor of English at John Carroll University, University Heights, OH. She has published widely in the field of early modern studies, especially on the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, and John Fletcher on topics such as colonization and transatlanticism, literature and science, and early modern ecology. Recent work has appeared in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race; The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science; and The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Culture. She is currently at work on a project investigating the elemental underpinnings of human identity in Shakespeare's moment.