Patricia Akhimie is an associate professor Rutgers University who is known for her work on early modern women's travel writing and Shakespearean writing.

Akhimie has a B.A. from Princeton University (2000), an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan (2002), an M.A. (2003) and a Ph.D.(2011) from Columbia University.^[1] Akhimie has served as the scholar-in-residence for the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival.^[2] As of 2022, she is an associate professor at Rutgers University in the departments of English, women's and gender studies,^[1] and she was named director of the Folger Institute in November 2022.^[3]

Her first book, Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race, Conduct, and the Early Modern World was published by Routledge in 2018. Her co-edited collection (with Bernadette Andrea), Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2019.

• Akhimie, Patricia (2009-06-01). "Travel, drama, and domesticity: colonial huswifery in John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's The Sea Voyage". Studies in Travel Writing. 13 (2): 153–166. doi:10.1080/13645140902866993. ISSN 1364-5145. S2CID 162099715.
• Akhimie, Patricia (2018-01-12). Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781351125048. ISBN 978-1-351-12504-8.^[4]
• Akhimie, Patricia; Andrea, Bernadette (2019). Travel and travail : early modern women, English drama, and the wider world. ISBN 978-1-4962-0226-0. OCLC 1086273325.^[5]