Katharine E. Maus

(1988)
James Branch Cabell Professor
Renaissance Literature

Degrees

Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1982
M.A. Johns Hopkins, 1978
B.A. Cornell, 1976

Books

  • The Oxford English Literary History, 1603-1660. Under contract with Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
  • Being and Having in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. A monograph on property relations in Renaissance drama, to be presented as the Wells Shakespeare Lectures in 2010, and published by Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
  • Co-editor, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume 1, eighth edition, 2005.
  • Co-editor, English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology, W. W. Norton, 2002.
  • Co-editor, The Norton Shakespeare, W. W. Norton, 1997, second edition, 2008.
  • Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance. University of Chicago Press, 1995.
  • Four Revenge Tragedies of the English Renaissance. Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • Soliciting Interpretation: Literary Theory and Seventeenth-Century Poetry, (ed. with Elizabeth Harvey). University of Chicago Press, 1990.
  • Ben Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind. Princeton University Press, 1985.

Articles

  • “Richard III as Machiavel.” Richard III: The Norton Critical Edition, ed. Thomas Cartelli. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. (excerpted from Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance, chapter 2).
  • “Idol and Gift in Volpone,” English Literary Renaissance 35 (2005): 429-453.
  •  “Marlowe and the Heretical Conscience.” Doctor Faustus: The Norton Critical Edition, ed. David Kastan. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005, pp. 370-378. (excerpted from Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance, chapter 3).
  • “Five Recent Books on Renaissance Subjectivity.” An invited review-essay on books published since Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance, for The Shakespeare International Yearbook 4 (2004): 339-355.
  • “Fetish and Poem: Ben Jonson’s Dilemma.” Money and the Age of Shakespeare, ed. Linda Woodbridge. New York: Palgrave, 2003. pp. 251-264.
  • “Why It’s Fun to Be Smart.” Times Literary Supplement. May 25, 2001. p. 24 [a 1700-word review of Marjorie Garber, Academic Instincts]
  • “The Spanish Tragedy, or, The Machiavel’s Revenge.” Revenge Tragedy, ed. Stevie Simkin. London: Palgrave, 2001. pp.88-106. (excerpted from Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance chapter 2).
  • "Sorcery and Subjectivity in Early Modern Discourses of Witchcraft." Interior Designs: Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture, ed. Carla Mazzio and Doug Trevor. New York: Routledge, 2000. pp. 325-348.
  • “Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed?” Times Literary Supplement. December 15, 2000, p. 23 [a 1700-word featured review of Wendy Doniger, The Bed Trick ].
  • "Inwardness and Spectatorship in Early Modern England." Neo-Historicism, ed. Robin Headlam Wells, Glenn Burgess, and Rowland Wymer.  London: Boydell and Brewer. 2000.  pp. 111-137 (excerpted from Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance, introduction.)
  • "Sexual Secrecy in Measure for Measure. "Measure for Measure: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Richard Wheeler. New York: G. K. Hall. 1999. pp. 197-216. (excerpted from Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance, chapter 5, part 2).
  • Editorial Board, ELH and The Sixteenth Century Journal.

Honors

  • Leverhulme Professor, University of Liverpool, UK, 2002
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 2000-2001
  • American Council of Learned Societies Senior Fellowship, 2000-2001
  • Roland Baintan Prize for an outstanding book in Renaissance Studies, awarded to Inwardness and Theater, 1996
  • NEH Summer Stipend, 1990
  • Folger Institute Fellowships 1977, 1986
  • NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1984-1985