Dr. Melissa Sanchez

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Biography

Melissa E. Sanchez is the Donald T. Regan Professor in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a core faculty member of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies program. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. Her research and teaching focus on feminism, queer theory, and 16th- and 17th-century literature. Currently, she is editing the Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies, and co-editing a collection titled 'All World Thee': LGBTQ+ Poetry from Homer to Hughes, which is under contract with Columbia University Press. She has authored several significant works, including 'Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity, Race, and Secular Love Tradition,' which was awarded an honorable mention for the MLA Scaglione Prize in Comparative Literary Studies. This book reassesses key texts in the pre-history of modern monogamy from authors like Paul, Luther, Petrarch, and Shakespeare, aiming to articulate the complexities around desire and self-knowledge. Sanchez also explores early modern subjects in her previous publications, including 'Erotic Subjects: Sexuality and Politics in Early Modern English Literature' and edited volumes that contribute to the current discussions surrounding humanism and feminist studies of the early modern period. Her diverse teaching repertoire includes courses on queer theory, feminism, and literature from the Renaissance.

Research Interests

Feminism Queer Theory Sixteenth-Century Literature Seventeenth-Century Literature

Courses

ENGL 5300.401 Religion, Race, Sexuality ENGL 0023.401 Gender, Sexuality, Popular Culture ENGL 6000.301 Proseminar ENGL 8000.301 Pedagogy ENGL 0159.401 Gender and Society ENGL 2300.401 Queer Poetry from Homer to Hughes ENGL 7901.401 Feminism and Early Modern Studies ENGL 7901.401 Guilt and Reparations ENGL 003.401 Queer Theory ENGL 736.401 Race, Religion, and Sexuality ENGL 311.301 English Honors Program ENGL 590.401 Affordances of Guilt ENGL 096.401 Theories of Gender and Sexuality: Introduction to Feminist, Queer, and Trans Theory ENGL 538.401 Religion, Race, and Sexuality in Early Modern Literature ENGL 020.301 Literature from 1660 ENGL 590.401 Feminist Theory ENGL 090.402 Gender and Popular Culture ENGL 290.402 Women Writers ENGL 096.950 Bodies, Art, and Performance: Representing Race, Gender, and Sexuality ENGL 003.401 Introduction to Queer Theory ENGL 338.301 Milton ENGL 538.401 Queer Theory in Early Modern Studies ENGL 600.301 Proseminar ENGL 731.301 Early Modern Sexualities ENGL 390.401 Early Modern Sexualities ENGL 096.401 Feminist Theory ENGL 739.301 Milton ENGL 735.401 Gender, Sexuality, and Early Modern Literature ENGL 101.001 Shakespeare ENGL 800.301 Pedagogy ENGL 020.001 Literature from 1660 ENGL 238.301 Milton ENGL 366.301 Law, Religion, and Literature in Renaissance England ENGL 538.401 Feminist Theory in Early Modern Literature ENGL 020.001 Chaucer and Milton ENGL 016.305 Politics, Love, and Religion in Renaissance England ENGL 222.401 Gender, Sexuality, and Sovereignty in Romance ENGL 022.001 Romance ENGL 331.301 Erotic Poetry in 16th- and 17th-Century England

Requirements for University of Pennsylvania

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.6
GRE General
Verbal
Required:162
Quantitative
Required:162
Overall
Required:162
GMAT
Total Score
Required:728
Overall
Required:728
TOEFL
Total
Required:115
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree or equivalent Strong quantitative background
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