Ariane Balizet, Ph.D.

Assistant Provost for Faculty Success and Professor of English

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 Balizet is the inaugural Assistant Provost for Faculty Success and Professor of English. She leads faculty success initiatives that support teacher-scholars at all stages of the academic lifecycle, including New Faculty Orientation; Faculty Onboarding and Mentoring; New Faculty Academy; and ongoing professional development in teaching, research, and leadership. As Associate Dean (2021-2025), she launched a nationally-recognized New Faculty Mentoring Program in the AddRan College of Liberal Arts. In addition to the 2019 Deans’ Award for Teaching, she has received ten recognitions for research, service, and graduate and undergraduate teaching since joining the faculty in 2008.

Dr. Balizet specializes in the literature of Renaissance England and its afterlives in popular culture and pedagogy. She is currently researching a book on games and colonial competition in early modern England, Spain, and the Caribbean. Her books include Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies (2019), Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama: Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage (2014), and Strategic Shakespeare: Transformative Leadership for the Future of Higher Education, co-edited with Marcela Kostihová and Natalie Eschenbaum (2025). Her essay, "Performing Shakespeare and Lope’s Heroines in Romeo and Juliet and Castelvines y Monteses" was published last year in Performing Girls and Women: Medieval to Early Modern and Beyond (University of Amsterdam Press). 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.

Books
- Strategic Shakespeare: Transformative Leadership for the Future of Higher Education. Co-edited with Marcela Kostihová and Natalie Eschenbaum (Routledge, 2025).
- Shakespeare and Girls' Studies (Routledge, 2019).
- Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama: Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage (Routledge, 2014).
Articles & Essays
- “Girls’ Studies and the Humanities: Recognizing Human-as-Girl.” Routledge Companion to Girls’ Studies. Ed. Sharon Mazzarella. Routledge, 2024. 30-43.
- "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).
- “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.
- “‘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.
- “Yoga, Postfeminism, and the Future.” With Whitney Meyers. Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis.
- “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.
- “Shakespeare, Television, and Girl Culture.” Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 9.1 (Summer/Fall 2014): 1-21.
- “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.
- “'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.
- “‘Enamoured of thy Parts’: Dismemberment and Domesticity in Romeo and Juliet.” Early Modern Literary Studies 19 (2009): 10.1-31.

“’Things Impossible’: Girls’ Bodies and Queer Desire in Lyly’s Gallathea.” Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL (April 2024).
“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).
“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).
“Rights Revoked: A RaceB4Race Roundtable” speaker. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (August 2022).
Seminar Organizer: “Shakespeare and Intersectionality in Adaptation and Performance.” Shakespeare Association of America Conference. Austin, TX, 2021.
Roundtable participant and organizer: “Girls’ Studies in/and the Humanities.” International Girls’ Studies Association Conference, University of Notre Dame, IN (February 2019).
“Unpacking Shakespeare’s Baggage: Adaptation in Young Adult Fiction.” National Council for Teachers of English, Baltimore, MD (November 2019).
“Domestic Tragedy and Blood: A Yorkshire Tragedy.” Resurgens Theater Death and Domesticity Conference, Atlanta, GA (September 2018).
“The Businesses of Being Born: Economies of Birth and Infant Care in Renaissance Drama.” Renaissance Society of America Conference, Boston, MA (April 2016).

Minnie Stevens Piper Professor (Statewide), TCU Nominee 2021-2022
TCU Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Achievement as a Teacher-Scholar (College of Liberal Arts WInner), 2021
TCU Deans' Award for Teaching, 2019
English Department Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award, 2019
English Department Graduate Faculty of the Year Award, 2010, 2017
English Department Research Award, 2016
TCU Women and Gender Studies Wise Woman Award for Teaching and Mentoring, 2013
English Department Teaching Award, 2013

Last Updated: April 16, 2026

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