Katharine Cleland

• Early Modern Literature
• English Reformation
• Shakespeare
• Spenser
• Milton

• PhD in English, The Pennsylvania State University
• MA in English, The Pennsylvania State University
• BA in English and Spanish, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Shakespeare Association of America
• Renaissance Society of America
• International Spenser Society
• Modern Language Association
• Sigma Tau Delta

Books

• Irregular Unions: Clandestine Marriage in Early Modern English Literature. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021.

Journal Articles

• “English National Identity and the Reformation Problem of Clandestine Marriage in Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book I.” Spenser Studies 29 (2014): 75-101.
• “‘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.

Book Chapters

• “‘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.
• “Daniel, Drayton, Chapman.” Oxford History of Poetry in English, Volume 4: Sixteenth Century British Poetry. Eds. Catherine Bates and Patrick Cheney. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Other Publications

• “Rota Virgiliana.” Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4^th edition. Ed. Roland Greene, et al. Princeton University Press, 2012. 1226-27.
• Review of Ian Frederick Moulton, Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century: The Popularization of Romance. New York: Palgrave, 2014. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 53.2 (2015): 325-28.

• Niles Research Grant. College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. Virginia Tech. 2019.
• Short-term Research Fellowship. Folger Shakespeare Library. Washington, D.C. 2014.

Undergraduate Courses

• Introduction to Shakespeare
• Studies in Shakespeare
• Milton
• Renaissance Literature
• Renaissance Revenge Tragedy (senior seminar)

Graduate Courses

• Introduction to Literary Research
• Renaissance Revenge Tragedy
• Romance Fiction
• Shakespeare and Adaptation