CoryAnne Harrigan
- Interim Academic Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs
- Professor of English
- Division B Head
- Department of Literature, Language, and Culture
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Mary Berry Hall 321
Biography
CoryAnne Harrigan teaches courses on British and western literature with a special focus on authors such as Chaucer, Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare. She serves as the faculty sponsor of Simpson PRIDE, the LGBTQIA student organization, and Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society. Her research focuses on international film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays.
Education
Ph.D, Purdue University
M.A., Purdue University
B.A., Mary Washington College
Publications
“The Fury of Lady Macbeth.” Proceedings of the 31st Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature. In press.
“Girdle Your Loins: Sexuality and Civil Strife in the Thebaid and The Faerie Queene,” Proceedings of the 25th Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature. September 2017.
“The Film’s the Thing: How Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well Helps Us Read Hamlet,” Proceedings of the 24th Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature, September 2016.
Annotations for Publius Papinius Statius’ Thebaid, or Seven Against Thebes. Trans. Charles Stanley Ross. Johns Hopkins Press, 2004.
Awards
Exemplary Teaching Award, Simpson College, 2016
Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, Simpson College, 2014
Faculty Leadership Award, Simpson College, 2011
