People
Faculty
Kaara Peterson
Titles
- Assistant Professor
Education
- Ph.D., Early Modern British Literature, Boston University, 2001
- M.A., British Literature, Boston University
- B.A., English, Boston University
Teaching Interests
- 16th and 17th century literature
- Shakespeare and film
- Intersections between literature, medicine, and drama
Research Interests
- Early Modern British literature, culture, and medicine, especially drama
- Medical history
- Editorial practices
- Art and other interdisciplinary approaches
Selected Publications
- “Historica Passio: King Lear, Early Modern Medicine, and Editorial Practice.” Shakespeare Quarterly 57.1 (Spring 2006): 1-22.
- “Re-Anatomizing Melancholy: Burton and the Logic of Humoralism.” Textual Healing: Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Medicine. Ed. Elizabeth Lane Furdell. Leiden: Brill, 2005. 139-67.
- “Shakespeare Revivifications: Early Modern Undead.” Shakespeare Studies XXXII (Fall 2004): 40-66.
- Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage. Ed. Stephanie Moss and Kaara L. Peterson. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.
- “Performing Arts: Hysterical Disease, Exorcism, and Shakespeare’s Theater.” Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage. 3-30.
- “Framing Ophelia: Representation and the Pictorial Tradition.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 31.3 (September 1998): 1-24. Reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism Yearbook 1998. A Selection of the Year’s Most Noteworthy Studies of William Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry 48. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000.
Work in Progress
Professor Peterson’s book on representations of pathology in early modern English literature, culture, and medicine, Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare’s England, is forthcoming from Ashgate. She is currently working on a new project about the construction of virginity in the age of Elizabethan art, medicine, and culture.