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@colleensflowercellar.com 

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: “Fashioning the Self”

Publications:

• “The Romance of Nahum Tate’s King Lear,” SEDRI: Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies 30 (2020): 91-115.
• “Thomas Jordan’s ‘The Forfeiture,’ A Mercantilist Rewriting of Shakespeare,” The Merchant of Venice: The State of the Play. Lindsay Kaplan ed. Arden Shakespeare State of the Play Series (London: Bloomsbury, 2020): 69-88.
• “‘For this is the Naked Truth’:  The Early Quakers and ‘Going Naked as a Sign’,” American Journal of Semiotics, Volume 27. 1-4 (2011): 203-231.
• “Women’s Studies in the ‘Post-feminist’ University,” Feminist Formations (formerly the National Women’s Studies Association Journal), Volume 23.1 (Spring 2011): 235-256.
• “Striking the Posture of a Whore: The Bawdy House Riots and the ‘Anti-Theatrical Prejudice’,” Genders, Volume 50 (2009).
• “Women Preaching in a not so Plain Style,” Semiotics: Yearbook of the Semiotic Society of America (2007): 159-169.
• With James Fitzmaurice eds. Cavendish and Shakespeare: Interconnections (primary editor; Aldershot:  Ashgate, 2006).
•  “Monstrous Births and the Body Politic: Women's Political Writings and the Strange and Wonderful Travail of ‘Mistris Parliament’ and ‘Mris. Rump’,” in Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500-1700, Mihoko Suzuki and Christina Malcolmson eds. (New York:  Palgrave, 2002):  209-230.
• “Margaret Cavendish, Shakespeare Critic,” 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’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.