Please email me at mherrold at achehealth.edu if you’d like copies of my published work.
Single-Authored Publications
“Compassionate Petrarchanism: the stabat mater dolorosa Tradition in Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum,” (Studies in Philology 117:2 (2020): 365-96).
“Form” in A Cultural History of Comedy in the Early Modern Age, eds. Andrew McConnell Stott and Eric Weitz. (London: Bloomsbury (2020): 23-44).
“‘A game played home’: The Gendered Stakes of Gambling in Shakespeare” in Games and Game Playing in European Art and Literature, 16th–17th Centuries, ed. Robin O’Bryan. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019): 119-37.
Review of Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare, dir. Mark Wing-Davey, Theatre Journal 66:1 (2014): 132-3.
Digital Scholarship
“How has (or might) social media change(d) our understanding of Spenser and Renaissance Literature?” Forum contributor, The Spenser Review, 51.3.2, Fall 2021.
“The ‘Seeds’ of Intertextuality in 17th-Century Women’s Writing: Craft, Philosophy, and Politics.” Women Writers Project, Intertextual Networks.
“Lanyer’s Appropriation of the Stabat Mater in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum.” 2017 post for Women Writers Project Blog.
Posters and Conferences Presentations
ACHE Research Symposium, Fort Smith, AR 02/09/2024
Cindy Fuller, PhD, Marya Ali, Megan Herrold. “Exploring Factors Associated with Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Decision-Making Among Caregivers in Sebastian County (Arkansas) and Surrounding Areas.”
Shakespeare Association of America, Jacksonville, FL 04/2021
“Spenser’s Lesbian Mothers, Monstrous Mothers,” Seminar: Mothering in Early Modern Culture.
Shakespeare Association of America, Denver, CO (online) 04/2020
“Consensual Risk in Shakespeare’s Bed Tricks,” Seminar: Early Modern Cons.
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI 05/2020
“Who Are the Blatant Beast’s Parents? Monstrosity, Misogyny, and Queer Political Possibility in The Faerie Queene Book V,” Spenser at Kalamazoo.*cancelled due to Covid-19 outbreak
Shakespeare Association of America, Washington DC 04/2019
“The Fellowship of Dangerous Seeds in the Querelle des Femmes and Spenser’s The Faerie Queene,” Seminar: Fellowship in Shakespeare’s Time.
Shakespeare Association of America, Los Angeles, CA 03/2018
“Marrying the Medusa in Spenser’s Book of Justice,” Seminar: The Problem of Life.
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI 05/2017
“‘That lothly uncouth sight / Of men disguiz’d in womanishe attire’: The Gender, Politics, and Justice of Spenser’s Loathly Ladies,” Spenser Sessions.
Shakespeare Association of America, Atlanta, GA 03/2017
“Milky Tears: Queer Maternity, Lamentation, and the Stabat Mater in Hamlet’s Player’s Speech,” Seminar: Queer Theology in Shakespeare Studies.
Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL 03/2017
“‘That lothly uncouth sight’: Misogyny and Marital Justice in The Faerie Queene, Book V,” Spenser: Faerie Queene and Amoretti.
Shakespeare Association of America, New Orleans, LA 03/2016
“Kinship and Misogynistic Doubling in The Winter’s Tale,” Seminar: More or Less than Kind: Claiming Kinship in Early Modern Literature.
Renaissance Society of America, Boston, MA 04/2016
“The Justice of Bed Tricks in Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure,” Poetics of Law Panel.
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Pasadena, CA 03/2014
“In disparity / The one intense the other still remiss’: Adam and Eve’s Social Economy in Paradise Lost,” Milton Panel.
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA 10/2013
“Performing the Monody: Milton’s ‘Lycidas’ within the Tradition of Musical Commemoration and the Liturgy,” Pre-1600 Panel.
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Pasadena, CA 03/2012
“Secular Hagiography in Sidney’s Old Arcadia: Readership, Historiography, and Exemplarity in Romance,” Friendship, Hagiography, Exile, and Time in Sidney’s Old Arcadia Panel.
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Vancouver, Canada 03/2011
“John Dennis, The Dunciad and the Musical Sublime,” Restoration to Eighteenth Century Panel.
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), San Antonio, TX 01/2008
“Effects of betamethasone on scalenus muscle development in Cavia porcellus,” with Rhoads, S.K., Hellie, A.C., Weigand, K.L., Dearolf, J.L.
Invited Talks
ACHE, Fort Smith, AR. “Unity in Diversity Panel on Mental Health” 11/07/2023
Co-lead by Black Student Healthcare Alliance (BSHA)
NYU Shanghai, China, Humanities and Social Sciences Colloquium 09/2021
“‘Strumpet Fortune’ or ‘Precious Winners All?’: Gambling with Political Possibility in Shakespeare’s Plays.”
NYU Shanghai, China, Humanities and Social Sciences Colloquium 03/2021
“Stone Maidens in a ‘Stonie’ Age: The Trouble with Allegory in Spenser’s Book of Justice”
Brigham Young University, , Provo, UT 09/2020
“Aemilia Lanyer and Passion Poetry,” for “Theorizing the Line” graduate course taught by Kimberly Johnson.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 09/2019
“Gaming in Early Modern England and The Taming of the Shrew,” Shakespeare and His Times course, English Department.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 02/2018
“The Teaching Philosophy: Forging Connections between Research and Pedagogy,” Graduate Pedagogy Workshop, Thematic Option Department.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 04/2017
“Shakespeare’s Hamlet,” Shakespeare General Education Lecture course, English Department.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 11/2015
“Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale,” Graduate Shakespeare Seminar, English Department.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 11/2014
“Tragedy and Shakespeare’s Late Plays,” Undergraduate Shakespeare Seminar, English Department.
Megan Herrold, OMS IV, PhD 