Katherine Kickel

Education

• PhD in English Literature, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (August 2004)
• MA in English Literature, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio
• BA in English Language and Literature; Women’s Studies Certificate; Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

Research Interests

• Eighteenth-century English fiction and culture
• History of the novel
• History of science and medicine
• Early Modern and Romantic women writers, Shakespeare

Teaching Interests

• Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture
• History of the novel
• Romantic women writers
• Literary theory
• Composition
• English as a second language

Selected Publications

• “Charlotte Lennox’s Shakespear Illustrated (1753-1754): Reading Eighteenth-Century Adaptation Practice in Measure for Measure,” The Journal of the Wooden O Symposium (Volume 4), Southern Utah University Press (2005).
• “Seeing Shakespeare for the First Time All Over Again: The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery of the Late Eighteenth Century,” Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City, Utah (August 2005).
• “Charlotte Lennox’s Shakespear Illustrated (1753-1754) and the Gender Politics of Early Modern Shakespeare Study,” Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City, Utah (August 2004).
• “Bishop Berkeley’s New Theory and the Romantic Imagination,” Eleventh International Congress on the Enlightenment and the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Los Angeles, California (August 2003).
• “Distempered Perception in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho,” Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Fort Worth, Texas (March 2003)
• “The Historical Gaze and the ‘Terror’: Helen Maria Williams’ Letters Written in France,” Milton Plesur History Conference, Buffalo, New York (February 2003)
• “General Tilney’s Time/Spending: Clock Time and Consumption in Jane Austen’sNorthanger Abbey,” Northwest Chapter of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Seattle, Washington (November 2002).
• “The Duchess of Malfi’s Subversive Mothering,” Shakespeare Association of America, Cleveland, Ohio (March 1998).