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Coppélia Kahn

Professor of English and Gender Studies

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 308
Phone: (401) 863-3738

Courses '09-'10
  Sem I:
  •   ENGL 0400A-S01: Introduction to Shakespeare -- CRN 11367
  •   ENGL 1360S-S01: Between Gods and Beasts: The Renaissance Ovid -- CRN 14973
 

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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 was president of the Shakespeare Association of America in 2008-9.