Katharine Cleland

• Early Modern English Literature
• Spenser
• Shakespeare
• Courtship and marriage rituals
• English Reformation

• Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
• M.A., Pennsylvania State University
• B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Literature and Language Committee
• Sigma Tau Delta

Journal Articles

• “‘Wanton loves, and yong desires’: Clandestine Marriage in Marlowe’s Hero and Leander and Chapman’s Continuation.” Studies in Philology 108.2 (2011): 215-37.
• “‘Warring Spirits’: Martial Violence and Anxious Masculinity in Paradise Lost.” Violent Masculinities: Male Aggression in Early Modern Texts. Eds. Catherine E. Thomas and Jennifer Feather. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 129-48.
• “English National Identity and the Reformation Problem of Clandestine Marriage in Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book I.” Spenser Studies 29 (2014): 75-101. 

Short-term Research Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library (summer 2014)