Hilda Ma  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  

Education:

• Ph.D. English, University at Buffalo
• M.A. English, University at Buffalo
• B.A. English, Saint Mary's College
  Magna Cum Laude

Award:

• Charles Davis Award for Outstanding Presentation - Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (2006)

Fellowships:

• Gates Millennium Fellowship - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2001)
• Irvine Scholar - Irvine Foundation, Saint Mary's College (2000)

Grant:

• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - Saint Mary's College (2009)

Presentations:

Selected Presentations

• From Hags to Witches. (paper)
  Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting
  (April 2011)
• English Literature (to 1700): Timescapes and Landscapes. (panel or forum chair, moderator, or leader)
  Annual Convention of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
  (November 2010)
• "Beggary and Want" of Youth: The Devils of Poverty and Old Age in The Witch of Edmonton. (paper)
  Annual Convention of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
  (November 2010)
• English Literature (to 1700): Protesting and Preaching. (panel or forum chair, moderator, or leader)
  Annual Convention of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Langauge Association
  (November 2009)
• Chambers and Wombs: Domestic Identity in Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed With Kindess. , (paper)
  Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies
  (October 2009)
• MySpace as ClassSpace: Adapting Social Networks to Course Work. (talk, speech or lecture)
  Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Spring Colloquium, Saint Mary’s College of California
  (April 2009)
• Shakespeare and Related Topics. (panel or forum chair, moderator, or leader)
  Annual Convention of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
  (November 2007)
• Lavinia as Cadaver: Anatomical Performance and the Shakespearean Stage. (paper)
  Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies
  (February 2007)
• Dissection and Mutilation: The Tragedy for Women in Titus Andronicus. (paper)
  Annual Convention of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
  (November 2006)
• Exchanging "Milk for Gall": Humoral Theory and Early Modern Technologies of the Body. (paper)
  Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies
  (December 2005)
• The Medicalization of "Midnight Hags": Macbeth and Witchcraft in Early Modern England. (paper)
  Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
  (October 2005)
• “Unsex Me Here": Monarchy, Gender, and Politics of the Transgressive Body. (paper)
  Gender Symposium, University at Buffalo
  (April 2005)
• “Make thick my blood": Lady Macbeth and Post-menopausal Witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. (paper)
  Shakespeare Conference
  (April 2004)
• The Symbolic Power of the Spatial and the Material in Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed With Kindness. (paper)
  Gender Symposium, University at Buffalo
  (March 2004)
• “A Gentle and No Jew": Jewishness and Unstable Representation in the Early Modern Period. (talk, speech or lecture)
  Niagara University
  (November 2003)

Publications:

• Ma, Hilda H. "The Medicalization of "Midnight Hags": Perverting Post-menopausal and Political Motherhood in Macbeth ." Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe. Eds. Theile, Verena and McCarthy, Andrew Farnham: Ashgate, 2012
• Ma, Hilda H. and Zeccardi, Joseph A. "What Would the Dude Do? Deconstructing the Dude." The Big Lebowski and Philosophy. Ed. Fosl, Peter S. Hoboken: Blackwell, 2012. 7-23
• Ma, Hilda H. "MySpace as ClassSpace: Adapting Online Social Networks to Course Work in Early British Literature Courses." Designs for Learning. Eds. Novakov, Anna and Feito, Jose A. SOFIA: A Journal of Teaching, Learning, and Visual Literacy, 2009