Overview
Margaux Delaney is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Literatures in English. Her research focuses on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry. Her dissertation project draws on lyric theory, feminist criticism, and early modern critical race studies to read complaint poetry of the 1590s and first decades of the seventeenth century for how it indexes and shapes early modern ideas of empire, race, and print authorship through the figure of the writing woman.
Research Focus
- Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature
- Poetry and poetics
- Feminist, gender, and sexuality studies