Dr. Anne Greenfield Portrait

Dr. Anne Greenfield

Professor of English, Omnino Journal, Adviser, Graduate Coordinator

  • Ph.D.
    University of Denver
  • M.A.
    Western Washington University
  • B.A.
    University of Wisconsin-Madison

Anne Greenfield is a Professor of English, specializing in Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature. She received her Ph.D. (English) in 2011 from the University of Denver, her M.A. (English) from Western Washington University, and her B.A. (Philosophy) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Greenfield’s current research focuses on depictions of rape and attempted rape in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature, particularly drama, which is the subject of her recent edited collection, Interpreting Sexual Violence: 1660-1800. Dr. Greenfield is Editor-In-Chief of the journal Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research. 

Dr. Greenfield regularly teaches a variety of English courses, including introductory courses, World Literature and British literature surveys, upper-division seminars on eighteenth-century literature, and graduate courses. Dr. Greenfield is also the Faculty Advisor to VSU’s undergraduate research journal, Omnino.