Bernadette Andrea

Bernadette Andrea (PhD, Cornell University) is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She previously taught at the University of Texas, San Antonio, where she was the Celia Jacobs Endowed Professor in British Literature. Her book on Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007 (paperback reprint 2009). Other books include The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2017), English Women Staging Islam, 1696–1707 (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, 2012), and Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds, with Linda McJannet (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Her co-edited collection (with Patricia Akhimie), Traveling/Travailing Women: Early Modern England and the Wider World, is forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press in 2018.