
Professor Ferguson joined the faculty at the University of California at Davis in 1997 and served as chair of the English department from 2006 to 2009. Before joining the faculty at the University of California at Davis, she taught at Yale, Columbia, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Dido’s Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France (University of Chicago Press, 2003).
Professor Ferguson is a graduate of Cornell University. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale University.


