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E. Mariah Spencer

Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies & Coordinator of Educator Licensure

Office: Reavis Hall 214B
Email: espencer1@niu.edu

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., English, The University of Iowa, May 2022
  • M.A., Humanities and Social Thought, New York University, 2016
  • M.A.T., Education, Drake University, 2010
  • B.A., English (with Honors), The University of Iowa, 2004

Professional Interests

  • Educator licensure
  • Play as pedagogy
  • History of educational reform
  • Professional development
  • British renaissance literature
  • Women writers and diversifying the canon
  • Gender and genre studies
  • The long history of science fiction

Selected Publications

  • "Grendel's Mother: Considering Sex and Female Monstrosity in Beowulf." Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, 31.1 (Spring 2024). 
  • "'Mistress of a World': Margaret Cavendish, Gender, and SF in Early Modern England." The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction, edited by Sonja Fritzsche, Keren Omry, Wendy Pearson, and Lisa Yaszek. Routledge, 2023. pp. 373-379.
  • "The Unnatural Tragedy by Margaret Cavendish" (review). Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal vol. 16, no. 2. Spring 2022. Co-authored with James Fitzmaurice and Harald Friedl.
  • "Contemplating Cavendish: An Analysis of Reader Marks in Playes (1662)." New College Notes 16. December 2021. pp. 1-7.
  • "A Duchess 'given to contemplation': The Education of Margaret Cavendish." vol. 61, Special Issue 2. May 2021. pp. 213 - 239.

Other Projects

  • Co-founder, The Online Olios. Hosted by
  • Editor, The Worlds Olio for The Complete Works of Margaret Cavendish, with general editors Liza Blake, Shawn Moore, and Jacob Tootalian. Punctum Books, ongoing.  
  • Guest Editor, “Concise Collections: Teaching Margaret Cavendish,” ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, 14.1 (Summer 2024). 
  • “Education + Access: Margaret Cavendish in the Classroom.” The Online Olios. YouTube. 28 June 2021.
  • Schneider, Jack, host. “A Duchess ‘given to contemplation’: The Education of Margaret Cavendish.” HEQ&A, E Mariah Spencer contributor. History of Education Quarterly, 15 June 2021.