{"id":286,"date":"2017-10-13T20:40:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T20:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-english\/facultystaff\/penelopegeng\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:35:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T10:35:49","slug":"penelopegeng","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/facultystaff\/penelopegeng\/","title":{"rendered":"Penelope Geng"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Penelope Geng is associate professor of English specializing in early modern literature, Shakespeare, law and literature, religion, and disability. Her book <\/span>Communal Justice in Shakespeare\u2019s England: Drama, Law, and Emotion<\/span><\/i><\/a> (2021) argues for the vital work of drama in preserving a culture of participatory justice, communal care, and lay magistracy at a time when the law was becoming professionalized.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her next project, provisionally titled <\/span>Disabled by Law <\/span><\/i>traces the legacy of seventeenth-century property law on modern notions of able-bodied citizenship\u2014and the surprising ways that ideology was (and continues to be) contested by the literary imagination. She is the co-founder of <\/span>Uncommon Bodies<\/span><\/a>, a Twin Cities-based research workshop devoted to sharing knowledge about disability theory, aesthetics, and pedagogy. At Macalester, she teaches classes such as \u201c<\/span>Shakespeare<\/span><\/a>,\u201d \u201cOnce upon a Crime\u201d (an introduction to law and literature), \u201cMajor British Authors,\u201d \u201cDisability in the English Renaissance,\u201d and \u201c<\/span>Demonology<\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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