Coppélia Kahn
Professor of English and Gender Studies
Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 308
Phone: (401) 863-3738
Courses '08-'09
Sem I:
ENGL 0400A-S01: Introduction to Shakespeare -- CRN 11912
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Degrees
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1970
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1964
B.A. Barnard College, 1961
Research Interests
Early Modern literature and cultural history, especially the drama and the social construction of gender, with a focus on Shakespeare; Shakespeare's place in 19th-20th century controversies over race, empire, and national identity.
Professional Accomplishments
She is the author
of Man's Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare (1981)
and Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds, and Women (1997).
She has published articles on Shakespeare's plays and poems, and on gender theory, Freud, Jacobean drama, and questions of race and nation in 20th century constructions of Shakespeare. She is co-editor of Representing Shakespeare: New Psychoanalytic Essays (1980); Shakespeare's Rough Magic: Essays in Honor of C.L.
Barber (1985); Making A Difference: Feminist Literary
Criticism (1985); and Changing Subjects: The Making of
Feminist Literary Criticism (1993). Her current research
concerns the creation of Shakespeare as a cultural icon in the
19th and early 20th centuries in discourses of race and Empire. She is currently vice-president of the Shakespeare Association of America, and will be president 2008-9.
