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Carla Mazzio

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Carla Mazzio, an American literary and cultural critic, specializes in early modern literature in relationship to the history of science, medicine, and health, the history of language, media technologies, and the printed book, and the history of speech pathologies with a focus on the harmful social construction of the “inarticulate” person or community. Her research has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Biography

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Carla Mazzio was born in Needham, Massachusetts. The youngest of four girls raised by Paula Collins Mazzio of Belmont, Massachusetts, she earned her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. in English from Harvard University.[1] She has taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the University of Chicago, the Bread Loaf School of English, and the University at Buffalo[2] of the State University of New York,[3] and currently teaches in the Department of English and co-directs the Medical and Health Humanities minor at the University of California, Riverside, where she co-founded and co-directs the UCR Health Humanities and Disability Justice Lab.

Bibliography

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Books

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  • Histories of the Future: On Shakespeare and Thinking Ahead, editor[4] (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming 2024)
  • The Inarticulate Renaissance, Language Trouble in an Age of Eloquence (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009). ISBN 978-0812241389
  • Book Use, Book Theory: 1500-1700, author with Bradin Cormack (Chicago: University of Chicago Libraries, distributed by University of Chicago Press), 2005. ISBN 978-0943056340
  • Shakespeare & Science, editor, Special Double Issue of the Johns Hopkins Journal, South Central Review (Winter and Spring, 2009).
  • Historicism, Psychoanalysis and Early Modern Culture, editor with Douglas Trevor (New York: Routledge, 2000). ISBN 978-0415920537
  • The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe, editor with David Hillman (New York: Routledge, 1997). ISBN 978-0415916943
  • Social Control and the Arts: An International Perspective, editor with Susan R. Suleiman, Alice Jardine and Ruth Perry (Cambridge: New Cambridge Press, 1990)

Selected essays

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Other

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  • Script Editor, Underwater Dreams[5] (2014 Documentary)

Awards

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  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in the Humanities, 2014-2015.[6]
  • Roland H. Bainton Book Prize for Literature for The Inarticulate Renaissance, 2010.[7]
  • English Association Beatrice White Book Prize for The Body in Parts, 1999.[8]
  • Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies, selected as one of the top Renaissance Scholars in the world under 40, 2004.[9]
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, 2004-2005.[9]
  • Northeast Modern Language Association Graduate Caucus Essay Prize, 1996 [10]
  • Helen Choate Bell Prize for Best Essay in American Literature, Harvard University, 1993.[11]
  • Four Derek Bok Prizes for Excellence in Teaching at Harvard University, 1993-1997.[9]

References

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  1. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. "Guggenheim Fellows". Archived from the original on 15 April 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  2. ^ "Department of English". University at Buffalo.
  3. ^ "UB Reporter". No. Fall. University at Buffalo. 2009. Archived from the original on 2014-10-18. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  4. ^ "Histories of the Future – Penn Press". University of Pennsylvania Press. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  5. ^ "Underwater Dreams". IMDb.
  6. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 2014-04-15. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  7. ^ "Roland H. Bainton Prizes". Sixteenth Century Society & Conference. Archived from the original on 2018-12-19. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  8. ^ "Beatrice White Prize - Previous Winners". University of Leicester.
  9. ^ a b c "CarlaMazzio". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
  10. ^ Mazzio, Carla (1998). "Northeast Modern Language Association Prize". Modern Language Studies. 28 (3/4): 93. doi:10.2307/3195467. JSTOR 3195467.
  11. ^ Helen Choat Bell Prize. World CAT. OCLC 28393022.