Katherine Scheil
Associate Professor
Ph.D. English, University of Toronto, 1995
210G Lind Hall
(612)625-6592
kscheil@umn.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Department Affiliations
English
Areas of Expertise
early modern literature; Shakespeare eighteenth-century literature especially drama; theatre history and performance studies; archival study; history of reading; women's studies/feminist criticism/history of women
Selected Publications
Book Review Editor, Theatre Survey
The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theatre. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series, 2003.
“Shakespeare’s Comedies and Women Readers,” invited essay in Shakespeare’s Comedy of Love: A Festschrift for Alexander Leggatt, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming
“Public and Private Reading: Shakespeare and Women’s Reading Groups,” Reader: Issues in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy Fall (2006).
“‘Rouz’d by a Woman’s pen’: The Shakespeare Ladies’ Club and Reading Habits of Early Modern Women.” Critical Survey 12 (2000). (Special Issue: Reading in Early Modern England)
“Early Georgian Politics and Shakespeare: The Black Act and Charles Johnson’s Love in a Forest (1723).” Shakespeare Survey 51 (1998).
“Sir William Davenant’s Use of Shakespeare in The Law Against Lovers (1662).” Philological Quarterly 76 (1997).
“Sauny the Scott: or, the Taming of the Shrew: John Lacy and the Importance of Theatrical Context in the Restoration.” Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture 1660-1700 21 (1997).
Graduate Courses
Women in Early Modern England
Shakespeare's Comedies
Gender and Genre in Renaissance Drama
Undergraduate Courses
Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Women
Shakespeare and After
English Stage Comedy
Restoration/Eighteenth-Century Literature
Writing Women's Lives
Literary Landscape of Britain