Karen Raber is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She specializes in Renaissance literature with emphasis on ecostudies, animal studies, and posthumanist theory. She joined the faculty of the University of Mississippi in 1995, after taking her BA from Yale University and her PhD from the University of California, San Diego. She is an author and editor of many books, most recently Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory (Bloomsbury 2018). She is also editor of Routledge’s series Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture.

In 2014 she was awarded the University’s Faculty Achievement Award. Her current monograph-in-progress uses new materialist methods to investigate the nature of meat in early modern culture; other ongoing projects include the Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare and Animals, and Routledge’s Handbook of Shakespeare and Animals, which she is co-editing with Holly Dugan. When not writing, researching or teaching, she can usually be found riding or competing her two horses in dressage and hanging out with Doug McPherson and other human and non-human animal friends.

Raber is also an award-winning competitive dressage rider.