Ariane Balizet, Ph.D.
she/her/hersa.balizet@tcu.eduScharbauer 2015E (map link)
Program Affiliations
Education
Ph.D., English Literature, University of Minnesota, 2007
MA, English Literature, University of Minnesota, 2003
BA, English Literature, Pomona College, CA, 2000
Jesus College, Cambridge University, England, 1999
Bio
Ariane M. Balizet studies blood in the Renaissance; histories and theories of girlhood; and games and colonial competition in England, Spain, and the early modern literary Caribbean. She is the author of Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies (Routledge 2019) and Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama: Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage (Routledge 2014). Her current research includes the book-in-progress Race Games: Identity, Competition, and Play in Early Modern Literatures and the co-edited volume Applied Shakespeare: Transformative Leadership in 21st Century Universities and Organizations (Routledge, forthcoming). Her essay, “Girls’ Studies in the Humanities: Recognizing Human-as-Girl” is forthcoming in the Routledge Companion to Girls’ Studies. In 2021, she was the AddRan College of LIberal Arts' winner of the Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Achievement as a Teacher-Scholar. In 2019, she received the AddRan Deans’ Teaching Award.
Courses Taught
Lower-division:
Introduction to Shakespeare
Introduction to Literature: Blood
Girls’ Studies
Upper-division:
Health, Illness, and (Dis)Ability in Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Race
Renaissance in England: Plague Years
Survey of British Literature to 1800
Love, Sex, and Power in Renaissance England
Senior Capstone in Women and Gender Studies
Graduate:
Literature Pedagogy
Renaissance Bodies
Renaissance Girlhoods
The Genre of Domestic Violence
Shakespeare and Race
Areas of Focus
Shakespeare
Early Modern England
Siglo de Oro Spain and the early colonial Caribbean
Pedagogy
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Adaptation Theory
Pre-modern Critical Race Studies
20th and 21st century Popular Culture
Girls' Studies
Disability Studies
- Articles & Essays
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"Fair Women, Red Hands, Black Will(s): Domestic Tragedy’s Racial Logic." Studies in the Literary Imagination 54.1 & 2 (2021 [published December 2023]): 41-56. -
“Teaching Romeo and Juliet in Plague-Time: A Trauma-Informed Approach.” Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation, Trauma and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences. Ed. Deborah Uman and Jennifer Flaherty. Arden Shakespeare, 2023 (17-33).
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“The Humorality of Toys and Games in Early Modern Domestic Drama.”Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance. Ed. Amy Kenny and Kaara Peterson. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, Palgrave Macmillan (2021): 167-187.
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“‘Amend thy Face’: Contagion and Disgust in the Henriad.” Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage. Ed. Mary Floyd-Wilson and Darryl Chalk. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, Palgrave Macmillan (2019): 127-45.
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“Yoga, Postfeminism, and the Future.” With Whitney Meyers. Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis.
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“Breastfeeding, Grief, and the Fluid Economy of Healthy Children in Shakespeare’s Plays.” (Dis)Ability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body. Ed. Sujata Iyengar.
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“Shakespeare, Television, and Girl Culture.” Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 9.1 (Summer/Fall 2014): 1-21.
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“The Cuckold’s Blazon: Dismemberment and Domesticity in Arden of Faversham and A Woman Killed with Kindness.” Staging the Blazon in Early Modern Theater. Ed. Deborah Uman and Sara Morrison.
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“'Drowned in Blood': Honor, Bloodline, and Domestic Ideology in The Duchess of Malfi and El médico de su honra." Comparative Literature Studies 49.1 (2012): 23-49.
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“‘Enamoured of thy Parts’: Dismemberment and Domesticity in Romeo and Juliet.” Early Modern Literary Studies 19 (2009): 10.1-31.
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- Books
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Shakespeare and Girls' Studies. New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2020. -
Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama: Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage. New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2014.
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“’Things Impossible’: Girls’ Bodies and Queer Desire in Lyly’s Gallathea.” Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL (April 2024).
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“Sangre Ajedrez: A Boricua’s Guide to Fair Play in Early Modern Studies.” Rising: A RaceB4Race Symposium (featured speaker). Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, AZ (January 2024).
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“A Girls' Studies Approach to Phillis Wheatley Peters.” Interdisciplinary Connections for Studying and Teaching Phillis Wheatley Peters, TCU. The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters Project (April 2023).
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“Rights Revoked: A RaceB4Race Roundtable” speaker. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (August 2022).
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Seminar Organizer: “Shakespeare and Intersectionality in Adaptation and Performance.” Shakespeare Association of America Conference. Austin, TX, 2021.
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Roundtable participant and organizer: “Girls’ Studies in/and the Humanities.” International Girls’ Studies Association Conference, University of Notre Dame, IN (February 2019).
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“Unpacking Shakespeare’s Baggage: Adaptation in Young Adult Fiction.” National Council for Teachers of English, Baltimore, MD (November 2019).
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“Domestic Tragedy and Blood: A Yorkshire Tragedy.” Resurgens Theater Death and Domesticity Conference, Atlanta, GA (September 2018).
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“The Businesses of Being Born: Economies of Birth and Infant Care in Renaissance Drama.” Renaissance Society of America Conference, Boston, MA (April 2016).
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Minnie Stevens Piper Professor (Statewide), TCU Nominee 2021-2022
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TCU Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Achievement as a Teacher-Scholar (College of Liberal Arts WInner), 2021
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TCU Deans' Award for Teaching, 2019
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English Department Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award, 2019
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English Department Graduate Faculty of the Year Award, 2010, 2017
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English Department Research Award, 2016
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TCU Women and Gender Studies Wise Woman Award for Teaching and Mentoring, 2013
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English Department Teaching Award, 2013
Last Updated: January 21, 2025