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Constance C. Relihan, Professor, received her PhD from the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses primarily on sixteenth-century prose fiction and Shakespeare. She has published Fashioning Authority: The Development of Elizabethan Novelistic Discourse (1994) and, as editor, Framing Elizabethan Fictions: Contemporary Approaches to Early Modern Narrative Prose (1996), as well as articles on Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, and Robert Greene.

In 1994 she won the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts Award for Teaching in the Humanities. She is currently at work on studies of the representation of geographic and cultural difference in Elizabethan fiction and on the sixteenth-century female reading audience.

Representative Publications
Framing Elizabethan Fictions: Contemporary Approaches to Early Modern Narrative Prose, Kent State University Press, 1996.

Fashioning Authority: The Development of Elizabethan Novelistic Discourse, Kent State University Press, 1994.

"Liminal Geography: Pericles and the Politics of Place," Philological Quarterly 71 (1992): 281-99.

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