About

Katherine Eggert received her BA from Rice University in 1984 and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. She has taught at the University of Colorado Boulder since 1991 and is a scholar of English Renaissance literature and culture, with a focus that spans the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries across the genres of drama, poetry, and prose. Her research interests include Shakespeare on film, John Ruskin, and literature's relationship with early modern science, particularly questions of epistemology and knowledge. Her notable publications include 'Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton' (2000) and 'Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England' (2015). Currently, she is working on a book about Renaissance happiness. Eggert has received year-long fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Folger Shakespeare Library. She has served as chair of the Department of English and as Vice President and President of the International Spenser Society. She is currently the Vice Chancellor and Senior Vice Provost for Academic Planning and Assessment at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Research topics

• Philosophy

Selected publications

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  Penn State University Press eBooks · 2023

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• Ruskin’s Taste in Spenserian Women: Not Looking at the Renaissance

  Spenser Studies A Renaissance Poetry Annual · 2019-01-01 · 1 citations

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  John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice (1851–53) is suffused with Spenser’s Faerie Queene. This essay proposes that Ruskin’s view of Spenser’s allegorical women repeats and intensifies an aesthetic experience that The Faerie Queene models: the view of a woman in which one looks at her but does not see. Since The Stones of Venice aligns active feminine sexuality with the Renaissance itself, Ruskin thus, by means of Spenser, offers a periodized aesthetics in which the medieval allows us not to see the Renaissance, no matter how much it comes into our view.

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• The Hugh MacLean Lecture 2019: What Does Colin Clout Know, and How Does He Know It?

  ˜The œSpenser review · 2019-01-01

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• 6. Alchemy, Humanism and the Uses of Disknowledge in John Lyly’s Galatea

  Edinburgh University Press eBooks · 2019-03-01

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• Alchemy

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2019-08-17

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• J. K. Barret . Untold Futures: Time and Literary Culture in Renaissance England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. Pp. 249. $55.00 (cloth).

  Journal of British Studies · 2018-01-01

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• Judith Anderson, Light and Death

  ˜The œSpenser review · 2018-01-01

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• Recent Studies in the English Renaissance

  Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 · 2017-01-01

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  An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of the English Renaissance and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of works received by SEL for consideration follow.

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• Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England

  Renaissance and Reformation · 2017-11-24 · 19 citations

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  Eggert, Katherine. Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Translating Dramatic Texts in Sixteenth-Century England and France), on Érudit.

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Frequent coauthors

• Scott Oldenburg

  Tulane University

  221 shared

• Paster Folger

  Rice University

  221 shared

• Margaret Simon

  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

  221 shared

• Gail Kern

  Rice University

  221 shared

• Joe Campana

  University of Colorado Boulder

  221 shared

• Wendy Beth Hyman

  221 shared

• Nancy Simpson-Younger

  St. Olaf College

  221 shared

• Julia Lupton

  University of Colorado System

  221 shared

Education

• B.A.

  Rice University

  1984

• Ph.D.

  University of California, Berkeley

  1991

Awards & honors

• Year-long fellowship from the National Endowment for the Hum…
• Year-long fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library
• Served as chair of the Department of English
• Served as Vice President and President of the International…