Assistant Professor of English
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8125

E-mail: StageK@ripon.edu

Education

• PhD., New York University
• MA, New York University
• AB, Harvard University

Areas of Interest

• Early modern literature, especially drama
• 16th- and 17th-century writings on London
• Development of the early modern metropolis and urbanism
• Spatial theory
• Theater history

Recent Publications and Presentations

• "Plague Space: Theatrical London Post-1603" paper for seminar at Shakespeare Association of America Annual meeting, March 2008, Dallas, Texas.
• "Staging Harfleur: Henry V and the Space of War," paper for seminar at Shakespeare Association of America Annual meeting, April 2009, Washington D.C.
• "Plague Space and Played Space in Urban Drama, 1604" Representing the Plague in Early Modern England.  Edited by Rebecca Totaro and Ernest B. Gilman.  Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture.  New York:  Routledge, forthcoming.
• " The Roaring Girl's London Spaces" Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 19.2 (2009) 417-436.
• "Legal Space and English City Comedy," Renaissance Society of America Conference, March 2007, Miamai, Fla.
• "Moves Make the Moll: 'The Roaring Girl's' Open City," Colloquium on Early Literature and Culture in English, with respondent Dr. Karen Newman, NYU, April 2006, New York, N.Y.
• Panel Organizer: "Do Not Pass Go: Crossing the Line in Early Modern London," with paper " ' Eastward Ho' And the Prison of Travel," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, December 2005, San Antonio, Texas
• "The City Cannot Hold You: Middleton's Cheapside," Literary London Conference, July 2005, Kingston University, U.K.
• "Importing 'Every Man in His Humour': the Relocation of Consumer Culture and the Commerce of Consumption," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, November 2004, Orlando, Fla.
• "Is a Word Enough? The Scrivener's Documents Staged," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, October 2003, Costa Mesa, Calif.

Professional Associations

• Modern Language Association
• Renaissance Society of America
• Shakespeare Association of America

Current Courses Taught

• Eng 110: Literature and Composition
• Eng 200: Literary London
• Eng 230: Literary Criticism
• Eng 251: Foundations of English Literature
• Eng 300: Renaissance Drama
• Eng 340: Shakespeare