Beth Savage, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Director of Gender Studies
English Department
Lynchburg College
Experience/Background
Before joining the faculty at Lynchburg College, I was a graduate student and adjunct professor at the University of Illinois where I taught English literature, composition, and business writing.
Education
I completed my B.A. in English and philosophy at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. I received my M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.
Professional/Research Interests
Drama, especially comedy; the "laboring poets" of the eighteenth-century; representations of mothers and motherhood; the history of medicine, specifically midwifery; feminist theory and masculinity studies.
Publications and Conference Presentations
"'For Want of Clelia': Re-placing the maternal body in The Twin Rivals." Comparative Drama 42.4 (Winter 2008-09).
"Phallic Nationalism: Cross-dressing and the limits of male homosocial desire in A Spy on Mother Midnight." Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Philadelphia, Penn., November 2008.
"'Is he not strangely altered?': Refiguring the father in Aphra Behn's Sir Patient Fancy." Aphra Behn Society Conference, Albuquerque, N.M., October 2007.
"'Thou Life and Soul of Secret Dealings': The threat of the midwife in Farquhar's The Twin Rivals." Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Chicago, Ill., February 2007.
Chair, "Staging social anxieties" panel. Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, Chicago, Ill., February 2007.
Courses Taught
Composition, World Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature
Memberships
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies
Aphra Behn Society
Contact Information
434/544-8828 or savage@lynchburg.edu.