Prof. Mary C Fuller

Professor Fuller's research focuses on the history of early modern voyages, exploration, and colonization; she is also interested in how observation and experience get transformed into narratives and books, and transformed again by readers past and present. She has published articles on Caribbean poetry, exploration narratives and video games, early modern circumnavigations, and Renaissance narratives of travel to Russia, West Africa, Guiana, Newfoundland, and Istanbul. Her teaching spans a broad range of topics, from poetry to scientific expeditions, including collaborations with CMS, Music, Anthropology, Women’s and Gender Studies, and EAPS. In 2010-11, she held an NEH Fellowship at the Huntington Library, working on a study of Richard Hakluyt’s collection of travel narratives and documents, Principal Navigations of the English Nation (1598-1600). She has studied the Japanese martial art of aikido since 1992.