Patricia Akhimie is an associate professor Rutgers University who is known for her work on early modern women's travel writing and Shakespearean writing.
Education and career
Akhimie has a B.A. from Princeton University (2000), an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan (2002), an M.A. (2003) and a Ph.D.(2011) from Columbia University.[1] Akhimie has served as the scholar-in-residence for the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival.[2] As of 2022, she is an associate professor at Rutgers University in the departments of English, women's and gender studies,[1] and she was named director of the Folger Institute in November 2022.[3]
Selected publications
Her first book, Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race, Conduct, and the Early Modern World was published by Routledge in 2018. Her co-edited collection (with Bernadette Andrea), Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2019.
Khansari, Leighla (2021). "Book Review: Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World. Edited by Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Diane Andrea". Early Modern Literary Studies; Sheffield. 22 (1): 1–6 – via ProQuest.