About Me
Regina Buccola is Professor of English and Chair of the Humanities at ²Ø¾«¸ó in Chicago, where she also serves as Director of Literature and Languages and core faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies. She has published several books on early modern British drama and culture, most recently in the , and as editor of A and co-editor, with Peter Kanelos, of . Recent journal publications include Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England and . She serves as the scholar in residence at , and is one of the Midwest American reviewers for the online journal . Buccola’s creative work can be seen with the Chicago political sketch comedy show DB Comedy; she is also a published poet, the author of the chapbook, . Her poetry has also appeared in The Journal of Kentucky Studies and Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
- Early Modern English Drama
The plays of William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, John Ford and their contemporaries on the 16th- and 17th-century English stage.
- Performance Studies
Analysis of dramatic works in performance, with particular emphasis on issues of gender, race, and sexuality.
- Feminist Drama
Primarily British and American drama focused on feminist issues.
- PhD English Literature with concentration in Gender and Women's Studies, 2000 — University of Illinois at Chicago
- MA English Literature, 1994 — University of Kentucky
- BA English and Journalism/Communication, 1991 — Bellarmine University