Margaret J Oakes

Professor

Margaret J. Oakes is a Professor of English at Furman University, a liberal arts college in Greenville, South Carolina. She specializes in early modern British poetry and drama and detective fiction. She holds a B.A. in English and a J.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.A. in English from Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. in English and Humanities from Stanford University. She has published on George Herbert, Francis Bacon, J.K. Rowling, Sara Paretsky, and Dorothy Sayers. Her book on gender presentation in Shakespearean performance, To Gender or Not to Gender: Casting and Characters for 21st Century Shakespeare will be published by McFarland Books in July, 2024.