People
Faculty
Contact Information
356 Bachelor Hall
Oxford Campus
513 529 5221
gillesk1@muohio.edu
On leave Fall 2007
Katharine Gillespie
Title
- Associate Professor
Education
- Ph.D. in English, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1996
- M.A. in English, State University of New York at Buffalo
- M.A. in English, Temple University
- B.A. in English, Temple University
Teaching and Research Interests
- Seventeenth-century British and American literature
- Milton
- Early modern women writers
- Feminist, new historicist, and public sphere theory
Selected Publications
- “Eve as Thanatrix: Sabbatarianism and the Republican Politics of Death and Resurrection in Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder.” In Gender and Violence in Early Modernism, edited by Joseph Thomas Ward and forthcoming from Palgrave Press, 2008.
- The Collected Works of Katherine Chidley, forthcoming from Ashgate Press, 2008.
- Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century: English Women Writers and the Public Sphere. Cambridge University Press, February 2004.
- “Mary Rowlandson’s ‘Restauration’ and the Glorious Revolution in the English Restoration.” Special issue of Bunyan Studies on Feminine Authority, Agency and Identity in Bunyan’s England. #11, 2003/2004.
- “Elizabeth Cromwell’s ‘Kitchin Court’: Republicanism and the Consort.” Genders 33 (2001).
- “This briny ocean will o’erflow your shore’: Anne Bradstreet’s ‘Second World’Atlanticism and national narratives of literary history.” Symbiosis Vol. 3, No. 2, October 1999.
- “The Separation of Church from State and the Woman Writer.” Special issue of Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature on British Women's Writing, Political Discourse 1640-1867. Vol. 17, No. 2, Fall 1998.
- “Anna Trapnel’s Window on the Word: The Private Spaces of Public Dissent in Seventeenth-Century English Non-Conformity.” Special issue of Bunyan Studies on Dissenting Women. No. 7, 1997.
- “Phyllis Mack’s Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophesy in Seventeenth-Century England.” Seventeenth Century Notes, 52.1&2 (1994): 14-16.
- “Elizabeth Poole: Introductory Essay.” Brown Women Writers Project: Renaissance Women On-Line, 1999.
- “Alice Morse Earle: Introductory Essay.” American Women Prose Writers 1870-1920. Sharon Harris, Heidi L.M. Jacobs, and Jennifer Putzi, eds. Dictionary of Literary Biography. (2000).
Work in Progress
Professor Gillespie is presently working on a book, Beyond Lucretia: Gender and English Republicanism in the Seventeenth Century, as well as an article entitled, “The Father of American Female Dissent: The Trial of Francis Marbury and Anne Hutchinson’s Persecuted Selfhood.”