Dr. Tricia A. McElroy
Associate Professor
Executive Director, Shakespeare Association of America
- tmcelroy@ua.edu
- (205) 348-4507
- 228 English Building
Education
- DPhil, English, University of Oxford, 2005
- MSt, Research Methods, University of Oxford, 1999
- MA, English, Southern Methodist University, 1995
- BA, Journalism, Texas A&M University, 1991
Research Areas
- English Renaissance Literature
- Scottish Renaissance and Reformation Literature
Bio
Tricia A. McElroy earned her D.Phil. in English from the University of Oxford. An Associate Professor in the Department of English, she is on the faculty of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies and teaches widely in English Renaissance literature. Her research centers on Renaissance Scotland, specifically on political satire, manuscript culture, and the partisan uses of literary genre in memoirs and histories of the period. For the Scottish Text Society, she is working on an edition of satire, entitled Satire of the Scottish Civil War, 1567-1584: Politics, Religion, and Society.
Dr. McElroy served as the Associate Dean for Humanities and Fine Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences for 10 years.
She is the Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America.
Selected Publications
“Imagining the ‘Scottis Natioun’: Populism and Propaganda in Scottish Satirical Broadsides,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 49.4 (2007): 319-39.
“A ‘litle parentesis’ to history: the Memoirs of Sir James Melville of Halhill,” in The Apparelling of Truth: Literature and Literary Culture in the reign of James VI. A Festschrift for Roderick J. Lyall, eds. Nicola Royan and Kevin McGinley, 148-61. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010.
“Performance, Print, and Politics in George Buchanan’s Ane Detectioun of the duinges of Marie Quene of Scottes,” in George Buchanan: Political Thought in Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World, eds. Roger Mason and Caroline Erskine. St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Ashgate, 2012.
“A ‘quarrell sett out in metre’: Toward a New Edition of Reformation Satirical Literature.” Contribution to symposium, “Divergent Authenticities: Issues in Editing Scottish Literary Texts,” Studies in Scottish Literature 39 (Summer 2013).
“Genres,” in The Oxford Handbook to Holinshed’s Chronicles, eds. Ian W. Archer, Felicity Heal, and Paulina Kewes, 267-83. Oxford University Press, 2013.
“The Uses of Genre and Gender in ‘The Dialogue of the Twa Wyfeis,’” in Premodern Scotland: Literature and Governance 1420-1587, eds. Joanna Martin and Emily Wingfield, 198-210. Oxford University Press, 2017.
“Satire,” co-authored with Nicole Meier (Bonn), in Companion to Scottish Literature, ed. Nicola Royan. 200-16. Association of Scottish Literary Studies, 2018.
“‘Ane wyfis quarrel’: Complaining Women in Scottish Reformation Satire,” in Gender, Politics and Form in Early Modern Women’s Complaint, eds. Rosalind Smith, Sarah Ross, and Michelle O’Callaghan. Palgrave, 2020.
“John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, and the Design of Mary’s Defence,” in Re-Thinking the Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland: Essays in Honour of Roger A. Mason, ed. Steven Reid, 223-41. Boydell and Brewer Press, 2024.
“Life Writing,” in A History of the Book in Scotland, Medieval to 1707, ed. Emily Wingfield. Forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Editorial Work:
Co-editor, with David Parkinson, special symposium: “ICMRSLL at Alabama: Reframing and Mediation,” for Studies in Scottish Literature 48.2 (December 2022).
Co-editor, with David Parkinson, “A Commonweal of Letters,” special issue of the Journal of the Northern Renaissance. Forthcoming April 2025.