Katherine Rowe

Katherine Rowe (Ph.D., Harvard) teaches and writes about Renaissance drama and culture, media history, and adaptation. She is the author of _Dead Hands: Fictions of Agency, Renaissance to Modern (Stanford, 1999) and co-author of New Wave Shakespeare on Screen (Polity, 2006). She is co-editor of Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion (Penn Press, 2004) and co-author of New Wave Shakespeare on Screen (Polity Press, 2007). She has published articles on Shakespeare, early modern drama, the history of the body, and Shakespeare on film. Her current projects include a modern edition of Macbeth and a study of adaptation as a cultural process. Prof. Rowe serves on the editorial board of Shakespeare Quarterly.

 

Courses Taught:

CSEMs: Plays, Players, Playing; Finding the Bias; Bookmarks
English 202: Chaucerian Texts, Chaucerian Persons
English 232: Milton: The Poetics of Reform
English 233: Spenser and Milton
English 250: Methods of Literary Study
English 321: Early Stages: Strange Passions in Medieval and Renaissance Drama
English 324: Romancing Shakespeare
English 324: Screening Shakespeare
English 328: Renovating Shakespeare

Also on BMC Web: "Writing with Audio/Visual Texts" a website of pedagogical resources for writing on film in literature class .

A review of Marina Leslie's Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History in BRYN MAWR REVIEW OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE.

A web-based version of Prof. Rowe's article, "'Remember Me': Technologies of Memory in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet" with playable clips.

When she's not working, you might find Prof. Rowe on the frisbee field with the Sneetches , Bryn Mawr and Haverford's Women's Ultimate Team.