Michelle Ephraim| Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Michelle

Ephraim

Humanities & Arts

Professor

Education

BA English and History Tufts University Magna Cum Laude 1991

MA English University of Wisconsin, Madison 1993

PhD English University of Wisconsin, Madison 1999

Expert Bio

Professor Ephraim is the Shakespeare scholar at WPI. She is the author of Reading the Jewish Woman on the Elizabethan Stage (Routledge, 2008) as well as numerous articles on 16th- and 17th-century literature. Ephraim also teaches writing courses on Creative Nonfiction and Speculative Fiction (Sci-Fi/Horror/Fantasy). Her essays have appeared in publications such as The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, Lilith, Tikkun, The Morning News, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Research areas/Expertise

Media Coverage

The role of the bubonic plague in Shakespeare's plays

WBUR 90.9

The role of the bubonic plague in Shakespeare's plays

Associate professor Michelle Ephraim spoke with WBUR Radio Boston about her popular “Infected Shakespeare” class at WPI that studies how the famed playwright understood and wrote about pandemics and infectious diseases, as part of the station’s “Brilliant Boston” series.

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