Dr. Katie Adkison

Biography

Katie Adkison is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University. Her scholarly work focuses on Shakespeare, Marlowe, and early modern English poets and playwrights, with a particular emphasis on gender, political theory, and the history of the senses. She is currently working on a book provisionally entitled "Sense Speech: Voice Sovereignty in Early Modern Tragedy," which investigates early modern discourses of embodied voice and its intersection with the era's political theory. Adkison argues that the tragedies of Kyd, Marlowe, and Shakespeare leveraged discursive intersections to articulate critiques of the pressures of sovereign power during their historical moment, in relation to modern notions of sovereignty as codified by the Peace of Westphalia. One of the chapters of her book, discussing King Lear, has been published in "Shakespeare's Virtuous Theatre: Power, Capacity, Good" by Edinburgh University Press in 2023. Prior to joining Texas A&M, she served as an Assistant Professor of English at Bates College in Lewiston.

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