Mary Floyd-Wilson

Short Biography

Mary Floyd-Wilson is associate professor of English literature at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She is the author of English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), which provides a history of geohumoralism and readings of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, Jonson’s The Masque of Blackness, and Shakespeare’s Othello and Cymbeline. She is also the co-editor with Gail Kern Paster and Katherine Rowe of Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) and co-editor with Garrett Sullivan of Environment and Embodiment in Early Modern England (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan).