Professor Woods has taught at Brown University, where she was Associate Dean of the Faculty, Franklin and Marshall College, where she was Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, and most recently at Wheaton College, where she was Provost from 1999 to 2006. She has been director of the Women Writers Project, Brown University, and was co-general editor of Oxford University Press’s series, Women Writers in English, 1350-1850. She is the author of Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet (Oxford University Press, a Choice notable book for 1999), and the editor of The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer (1611) (OUP, 1993) and Milton’s Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained Freedom and Tyranny in Spenser and Milton.


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