People
Faculty
Contact Information
Oxford Campus
379 Bachelor Hall
(Luxembourg campus Fall 2011)
petersk7@muohio.edu
Kaara Peterson
Titles
- Associate Professor
- Director, Literary London Program
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, the arts, and drama
Research Interests
- Early Modern British literature, culture, and medicine, especially drama
- Medical history
- Editorial practices
- Art and other interdisciplinary approaches
Selected Publications
- The Afterlife of Ophelia. Ed. Kaara L. Peterson and Deanne Williams. Forthcoming, Palgrave (2011).
- Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare’s England. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010.
- “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 is currently working on a new project about the construction of virginity in the age of Elizabethan art, medicine, and culture.