Bernadette Andrea is a Professor of English

English language

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 at the University of Texas at San Antonio

University of Texas at San Antonio

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, where she was also the chair of the Department of English, Classics

Classics

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, and Philosophy

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. Her research focuses on women's writing

Women's writing

Women's writing may refer to the general study of women writers or women's literature as a genre in general, or in particular languages. See:* Women's writing in English* Écriture féminine* List of women writers* List of women rhetoricians...

 from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century

1700s in literature

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, with emphasis on Western European interactions with the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

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. Her book on Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature was published by Cambridge University Press

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 in 2007 (paperback

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 reprint 2009). Her book Delarivier Manley and Mary Pix: English Women Staging Islam, 1696-1707 is forthcoming from the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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).