Ellen S. Mankoff has taught a wide variety of courses in the Department of English since joining the faculty in 1980. She has directed the Kenyon-Exeter program, was a member of the faculty of the Kenyon Summer in Rome, and has also taught in the Integrated Program in Humane Studies. Several of her courses are cross-listed in Women's and Gender Studies. Her essay "Approaching Paradise Lost through a Reading of Milton's Sonnets" is included in the MLA volume Approaches to Teaching Milton's Paradise Lost (1st edition). She has a special interest in the poetry of Edmund Spenser and in early modern women writers.

Areas of Expertise

Chaucer, Renaissance literature, nineteenth-century British literature

Education

M.A. The Johns Hopkins University
B.A. Reed College

Courses Taught

ENGL 103/104 All About Eve
ENGL 103/104 Identities and Epiphanies
ENGL 224 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
ENGL 231 Elizabethan Age
ENGL 233 Women in Renaissance Literature
ENGL 254 Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Literary Women
ENGL 320 Shakespeare: Sources and Afterlives
ENGL 325 Chaucer
ENGL 338 Milton