Karen Raber
Associate Professor & Assistant Chair

Office: Bondurant W203
Telephone: 662-915-7049
E-mail: kraber@olemiss.edu

• Ph.D., University of California, San Diego (1995)
• M.A., Univ. of California, San Diego (1992)
• B.A., Yale University (1983)

• Early modern British literature and culture
• Early modern women writers feminist theory
• Cultural studies
• Horses and horsemanship in early modern England/Europe
• Animal Studies
• Ecocriticism

• Early Modern Ecostudies. Co-edited with Tom Hallock and Ivo Kamps. Palgrave Press, forthcoming.
• Elizabeth Cary: Volume 4 of Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700. Gen. Ed. Mary Ellen Lamb. Ashgate Press, forthcoming.
• The Culture of the Horse: Discipline, Status and Identity in the Early Modern World. Co-edited with Treva Tucker. New York: Palgrave, 2005.
• William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure: Texts and Contexts. Co-edited with Ivo Kamps. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2004.
• Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama. University of Delaware Press, 2001.

• "Popular Beliefs," forthcoming in A Cultural History of the Humany Body in the Renaissance, ed. Linda Kalof and William Bynum. Berg Press, 2008.
• "From Sheep to Meat, From Pets to People: Animal Domestication 1600-1800." A Cultural History of Animals, Vol. IV: 1600-1800, ed. Matthew Senior. London: Berg, 2007: 73-99.
• “Early Modern Drama and the Female Dramatist,” forthcoming in Teaching the New English Literature: Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists, eds. Andrew Hiscock, Lisa Hopkins, C.B. Knights. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2007.
• "Recent Ecostudies in Tudor and Stuart Literature," ELR 37:1 (Winter 2007): 151-71.
• “Closet Drama.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. London and New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2006.
• “Absolutism and Incest in Margaret Cavendish’s The Unnatural Tragedy,” in Margaret Cavendish and William Shakespeare, ed. James Fitzmaurice, Gweno Williams and Katherine Romack. Forthcoming from Ashgate Press, 2005.
• “Michel Foucault and the Spectre of War.” In Historicizing Theory, ed. Peter Herman. Albany: SUNY Press, 2003.
• "Murderous Mothers and the Family/State Analogy in Classical and Renaissance Drama." Comparative Literature Studies 37:3 (Summer, 2000): 298-320.
• "Gender and Property: Elizabeth Cary's History of Edward II." Explorations in Renaissance Culture 26:2 (Dec. 2000): 1-29.
• "Warrior Women in the Plays of Thomas Killigrew and Margaret Cavendish." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 40:3 (Summer 2000): 413-31.