Professor, scholar, and Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America
Karen Raber is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, specializing in Renaissance literature with emphasis on ecostudies, animal studies, and posthumanist theory. She is the author of Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory; Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture; and Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama among other works.
As the Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America, Raber is leading the organization with the mission to be engaged, inclusive, and cutting-edge.
Books
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Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory
(Bloomsbury 2018)
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Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture
(UPenn Press 2013)
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Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class, and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama
(Delaware 2001)
Scholarship
Raber’s scholarship engages with ecocriticism, animal studies, and posthumanist theory, while her early work on gender and women writers continues to be influential.
Publications
Raber is the author of Shakespeare and Animals: A Dictionary, Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory; Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture; and Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama. She is also the co-editor of many edited collections and is the editor of Routledge’s book series, Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture.
Shakespeare Association of America
Karen Raber is the Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America, a non-profit professional organization for the advanced academic study of William Shakespeare’s plays and poems, his cultural and theatrical contexts, and the many roles these have played in world culture.