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Skidmore College
English Department

Katherine Romack

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: ā€œFashioning the Selfā€

Publications:

  • ā€œThe Romance of Nahum Tateā€™s King Lear,ā€ SEDRI: Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies 30 (2020): 91-115.
  • ā€œThomas Jordanā€™s ā€˜The Forfeiture,ā€™ A Mercantilist Rewriting of Shakespeare,ā€ The Merchant of Venice: The State of the Play. Lindsay Kaplan ed. Arden Shakespeare State of the Play Series (London: Bloomsbury, 2020): 69-88.
  • ā€œā€˜For this is the Naked Truthā€™:  The Early Quakers and ā€˜Going Naked as a Signā€™,ā€ American Journal of Semiotics, Volume 27. 1-4 (2011): 203-231.
  • ā€œWomenā€™s Studies in the ā€˜Post-feministā€™ University,ā€ Feminist Formations (formerly the National Womenā€™s Studies Association Journal), Volume 23.1 (Spring 2011): 235-256.
  • ā€œStriking the Posture of a Whore: The Bawdy House Riots and the ā€˜Anti-Theatrical Prejudiceā€™,ā€ Genders, Volume 50 (2009).
  • ā€œWomen Preaching in a not so Plain Style,ā€ Semiotics: Yearbook of the Semiotic Society of America (2007): 159-169.
  • With James Fitzmaurice eds. Cavendish and Shakespeare: Interconnections (primary editor; Aldershot:  Ashgate, 2006).
  •  ā€œMonstrous Births and the Body Politic: Women's Political Writings and the Strange and Wonderful Travail of ā€˜Mistris Parliamentā€™ and ā€˜Mris. Rumpā€™,ā€ in Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500-1700, Mihoko Suzuki and Christina Malcolmson eds. (New York:  Palgrave, 2002):  209-230.
  • ā€œMargaret Cavendish, Shakespeare Critic,ā€ 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 Womenā€™s 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.