Dr. Katherine Walker

BOOKS

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2022  Prophetic Futures, Palgrave Macmillan. Co-editor with Joseph Bowling.

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2021  Shakespeare and Science: A Dictionary, New York and London: Bloomsbury's Arden Shakespeare Series.

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PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

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2023  "State of the Field: Early Modern Magic," Literature Compass, (January 2023)

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2022   “Reading the Early Modern Witch as Epistemic Spectacle,” Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes,                       Forthcoming. 

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2022    “‘Palpable to Thinking’: Othello and Gross Conceits,” English Literary Renaissance, (Spring 2022). 

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2021    “Demonic Temporality in Doctor Faustus,” Journal of Marlowe Studies, 1.2 (December 2021): 1-24. 

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2020    “Clowns and Demonological Learning in Doctor Faustus,” English Literary History 87.2 (2020): 405-431. 

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2018    “Shakespeare and the Magic of Mummy: Consumed/Consuming Bodies in Julius Caesar,” Preternature: Critical                   and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 7.2 (2018): 215-238.

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2017    “‘Daring to Pry into the Privy Chamber of Heaven’: Early Modern Mock-Almanacs and the Virtues of Ignorance,”                 Studies in Philology, Winter 2017.

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2015    “Early Modern Almanacs and The Witch of Edmonton,” Early Modern Literary Studies, 18.1&2 (2015): 1-25.

 

2014    “Spectatorship and Vision in The York Corpus Christi Plays,” Comitatus 45 (2014): 169-189.  

 

2013    “‘Sometimes an Actor Himselfe’: Robert Burton and Therapeutic Theatricality,” Prose Studies 35.3 (2013): 223-238.

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BOOK CHAPTERS

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2022    “Instinct and the Body of the Cook.” In In the Kitchen. Edited by Hillary Nunn and Madeline Bassett. Amsterdam University Press. Forthcoming. 

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2022    “Under the Sway of the Moon: Almanacs and Blood-letting in Jacobean Tragedy.” In

Hematopoetics. Edited by Ariane Balizet. Forthcoming.

 

2022    “Dethroning Shakespeare.” In Inclusive Shakespeares. Edited by Sonya Freeman Loftis, Mardy Philippian, and  Justin Shaw. Forthcoming. 

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2021    “Culinary Paracelsianism: Instinct and the Body of the Early Modern Cook,” in In the Kitchen, edited by Hillary Nunn and Madeline Bassnett. Spring/Summer 2021.

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EDITED JOURNAL ISSUES

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2022   Co-editor with Mary Floyd-Wilson, “New Directions in Medicine and Embodiment on the Shakespearean Stage,” Humanities. Forthcoming.

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2019    Co-editor with Joseph Bowling, “Prophetic Futures,” postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies. Spring 2019.

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ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

 

2022    “Astrology.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Renaissance Knowledge. Forthcoming. 

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2022    “Women and Printed Almanacs,” edited by Katherine Acheson, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing, general editors Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith.

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SELECTED REVIEWS

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2021    Swann, Elizabeth. Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England. (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Renaissance Quarterly (Fall 2021). 

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2021    Knapp, James A. Immateriality and Early Modern English Literature: Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Reformation (Spring 2021). 

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2017    Marchitello, Howard and Evelyn Tribble (eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). The Journal of the Northern Renaissance (Summer 2017).

 

2016    Pedersen, Tara E. Mermaids and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2015). Comparative Drama (Fall 2016).

 

2016    Preston, Claire. The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 2015). The British Society for Literature and Science (Summer 2016).

 

2015    Jennifer Munro, Edward Geisweidt, and Lynne Bruckner, eds. Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts: A Field Guide to Reading and Teaching (Ashgate, 2015). The British Society for Literature and Science (Fall 2015).

 

2015    Daniel Jütte, The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets (Yale University Press, 2015). Sixteenth Century Journal (Fall 2015).

 

2015    Leah Knight, Reading Green in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2014). The British Society for Literature and Science (Summer 2015).

 

2014    Erika T. Lin, Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Journal of the Northern Renaissance. (Spring 2014).

 

2011    Fred Tromly, Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare: The Debt Never Promised (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010). Sixteenth Century Journal. (Spring 2011).