Mailing Address:
PENN STATE BEHREND
170 KOCHEL CENTER
ERIE, PA 16563
Biography
Dr. Sara Luttfring is an associate professor of English at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. She received the B.A. in English with a minor in philosophy from Ohio University (2002), and the M.A. (2004) and Ph.D. (2010) in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Luttfring’s teaching and research interests include: sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British literature and culture, including Shakespeare and other drama; women writers; and professional writing.
Courses Taught
- ENGL 002, The Great Traditions in English Literature
- ENGL 202D, Effective Writing: Business Writing
- ENGL 419, Advanced Business Writing
- ENGL/WMST 489, British Women Writers
Research Interests
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British literature and culture; early modern representations of the body; history of the book; gender and sexuality
Publications
Prodigality in Early Modern Drama, Review of English Studies - April, 2021
Bodies, Speech, and Reproductive Knowledge in Early Modern England - 2019
The Critical Backstory - 2019
Staging Women and the Soul-Body Dynamic in Early Modern England, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England - January 1, 2017
Bodies, Speech, and Reproductive Knowledge in Early Modern England - 2016
'Weele pay for that we take': Regendering Consumption in Tis Merry When Gossips Meete, Huntington Library Quarterly - July, 2014
Dissection, Pregnancy, and the Limits of Knowledge in Early Modern Midwifery Treatises and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore - 2013
Bodily Narratives and the Politics of Virginity in The Changeling and the Essex Divorce, Renaissance Drama - 2011
Performing Maternity in Early Modern England, The Sixteenth Century Journal - January, 2009
Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves: The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England, Early Modern Literary Studies - May, 2008
Education
Ph D, English, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
MA, English, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
BA, English, Ohio University