Faculty Profile
Karen L Raber
Areas of Expertise
- ENGLISH
- ENGLISH LITERATURE
- ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY
- LITERATURE
- LITERATURE, CRITICAL THEORY AND LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERATURE, ENGLISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
- WOMEN WRITERS
Brief Bio
Karen Raber is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, specializing in Renaissance literature with emphasis on ecostudies, animal studies, and posthumanist theory; she also currently serves as the Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America. Her publications include three monographs--Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory (2018), Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture (2013), and Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class, and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama (2001)--over forty articles and book chapters, and several edited collections, including Performing Animals: History, Agency, Theater (Penn State, 2017) coedited with Monica Mattfeld; Early Modern Ecostudies: From Shakespeare to the Florentine Codex (Palgrave 2009) coedited with Ivo Kamps and Thomas Hallock; and The Culture of the Horse: Status, Discipline and Identity in the Early Modern World (Palgrave 2005) coedited with Treva Tucker. She edits Routledge's series Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture (https://www.routledge.com/Perspectives-on-the-Non-Human-in-Literature-and-Cul
Degrees
BA |
English |
Yale University (1983) |
PhD |
Literature |
University of California-San Diego (1995) |
Committee Memberships
Branch Campus Committee - C. Lib Arts |
Other Kind of Committee |
University Standing Committee |
Awards
Faculty Achievement Award |
2014 |
The Distinguished Professor Award |
2019 |
SEC Faculty Achievement Awards Program UM Nominee |
2019 |