Liza Blake

Liza Blake

Title/Position
PhD | Associate Professor
Medieval and Renaissance Literature
  • Room:
    MN 5246
  • Mailing Address:

    3359 Mississauga Road
    Mississauga ON L5L 1C6
    Canada

Research and Publications


Areas of Specialization: Medieval and Renaissance literature, including drama, poetry, and prose; early modern women writers; literature and science; literature and philosophy; poetics; the history of materialism; critical theory; textual bibliography; editorial theory and practice

Courses Taught
ENG101H How to Read Critically
ENG202H British Literature in the World I: Medieval to Eighteenth-Century
ENG220Y Shakespeare
ENG223H Introduction to Shakespeare
ENG301H Making Love in the Sixteenth Century

ENG302Y Poetry and Prose 1500-1600
ENG304Y Poetry and Prose 1600-1660

ENG304H Seventeenth-Century Poetry
ENG307H Women's Writing before Austen

ENG313H Science and Fiction in the English Renaissance
ENG313H Spenser's Faerie Queene, Books I-III

ENG330H Early Drama
ENG390Y Individual Studies course
ENG399Y Editing Margaret Cavendish
ENG460H 
Literature Pre-1700 (Early Modern Asexualities)
ENG462H What’s Metaphysical About Metaphysical Poetry?