Katherine Romack
Visiting assistant professor
B.A., M.A., and Ph.D in English, Syracuse University
Office: Palamountain 320W
Phone: (518) 580-5159
Email: kromack@skidmore.edu
Teaching Interests:
- Early modern literature and culture
- Women's writing (to 1800)
- Shakespeare and Restoration adaptations of Shakespeare
- Spenser
- Milton
- Metaphysical poetry
Courses Taught:
- EN 105: 鈥淔ashioning the Self鈥�
Publications:
- 鈥淭he Romance of Nahum Tate鈥檚 King Lear,鈥� SEDRI: Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies 30 (2020): 91-115.
- 鈥淭homas Jordan鈥檚 鈥楾he Forfeiture,鈥� A Mercantilist Rewriting of Shakespeare,鈥� The Merchant of Venice: The State of the Play. Lindsay Kaplan ed. Arden Shakespeare State of the Play Series (London: Bloomsbury, 2020): 69-88.
- 鈥溾�楩or this is the Naked Truth鈥�: The Early Quakers and 鈥楪oing Naked as a Sign鈥�,鈥� American Journal of Semiotics, Volume 27. 1-4 (2011): 203-231.
- 鈥淲omen鈥檚 Studies in the 鈥楶ost-feminist鈥� University,鈥� Feminist Formations (formerly the National Women鈥檚 Studies Association Journal), Volume 23.1 (Spring 2011): 235-256.
- 鈥淪triking the Posture of a Whore: The Bawdy House Riots and the 鈥楢nti-Theatrical Prejudice鈥�,鈥� Genders, Volume 50 (2009).
- 鈥淲omen Preaching in a not so Plain Style,鈥� Semiotics: Yearbook of the Semiotic Society of America (2007): 159-169.
- With James Fitzmaurice eds. Cavendish and Shakespeare: Interconnections (primary editor; Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).
- 鈥淢onstrous Births and the Body Politic: Women's Political Writings and the Strange and Wonderful Travail of 鈥楳istris Parliament鈥� and 鈥楳ris. Rump鈥�,鈥� in Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500-1700, Mihoko Suzuki and Christina Malcolmson eds. (New York: Palgrave, 2002): 209-230.
- 鈥淢argaret Cavendish, Shakespeare Critic,鈥� The Feminist Companion to Shakespeare, Dympna Callaghan ed. (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000; paperback, 2001; online edition, 2003; revised 2nd edition 2016.): 21-41.
Honors and Awards:
- College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities Faculty Excellence Award, University of West Florida, 2016-2019.
- Red Ribbon Charitable Foundation Grant, 2016.
- Mary F. Rogers Women鈥檚 Studies Faculty Award, 2010.
- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, Stanford University, 2003-2005.
- Folger Shakespeare Library Consortium Grant-in-Aid, Spring 2001 and 2002.
- Syracuse University Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, Syracuse University, 1998-1999.