Edith Snook
BA, MA (Alberta), PhD (Western Ontario)
Edith Snook’s research and teaching focus on early modern English literature, with a particular interest in writing by women. She is the author of two books. Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England: A Feminist Literary History (Palgrave, 2011; SSHRC funded) was named a 2011 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. This book looks at print and manuscript materials to explore how women linked their understanding of cosmetics, clothing, and hair to medicine, politics, religion, motherhood, and gender, class, and racial identities. Her first book, Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England (Ashgate 2005), is a study of representations of reading in early modern women’s writing. Among her other publications are essays on women and reading in The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing (2009) and sixteenth-century maternal advice in The Palgrave History of Women's Writing, 1500-1610 (2010).
Her current SSHRC-funded research project is a study of how women's medical practice informed women's writing in seventeenth-century England. She supervises theses on early modern non-dramatic literature, particularly women's writing. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
You can access Edith Snook's CV (PDF format).
Contact Information:
Office: Carleton Hall 228-2
Phone: (506) 458-7397
