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Katherine Eggert received her BA from Rice University (1984) and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (1991) and has taught at Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô Boulder since 1991. She is a scholar of English Renaissance literature and culture, ranging across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and across the literary genres of drama, poetry, and prose. She has also published on Shakespeare on film and on John Ruskin. Lately, she has been interested in literature and early modern science, especially questions of epistemology and how we manage to know some things and not know others. Her books include Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton (2000) and Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England (2015).ÌýHer current research project is a book on Renaissance happiness.

A recipient of year-long fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Folger Shakespeare Library and a past president of the International Spenser Society, Professor Eggert has served at Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô Boulder as Chair of the Department of English, Director of the Center for British and Irish Studies, and Vice Chancellor and Senior Vice Provost for Academic Planning and Assessment. She is currently the Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Areas of Specialty

• British Literature
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Renaissance Literature