Professor English
Ancient, medieval, and Renaissance poetry; Shakespeare; history of poetry; literature and religion; literature and the natural world.

krier@macalester.edu

Website: https://sites.google.com/a/macalester.edu/theresa-krier/

Theresa Krier's scholarship is in ancient, medieval, and Renaissance poetry; her teaching interests include poetry and poetics, religion and literature, Shakespeare, genre, and nature writing. She is the author of Birth Passages: Maternity and Nostalgia, Antiquity to Shakespeare (Cornell, 2001) and Gazing on Secret Sights: Spenser, Classical Imitation, and the Decorums of Vision (Cornell, 1990). She is the editor of Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance (Florida, 1998); co-editor, with Elizabeth D. Harvey, of Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture: Thresholds of History (Routledge, 2004), and co-editor of two special issues of Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual. She is currently at work on a book about gesture and movement in poetry, and is developing new courses: "The Literary Bible" and "Myth in Literature."

2012-2013 Courses

• On Sabbatical for Fall Semster 2012
• Poetry (135-01), Spring
• Shakespeare Studies (310-01), Spring

Recent Essays

• “Gender Studies and Spenser Studies.” The Oxford Handbook of Spenser Studies, ed. Richard McCabe.
• “Field Poetics.” Review essay of Environment & Embodiment in Early Modern England. Shakespeare Studies.
• “The Faerie Queene (1596).” In A Critical Companion to Spenser Studies, ed. Bart van Es.
• “Time Lords: Rhythm and Interval in Spenser’s Stanzaic Narrative.” Spenser Studies XXI (2006): 1-19.
• “Psychic Deadness in Allegory: Spenser’s House of Mammon and Attacks on Linking.” In Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton.
• “Mère marine: Narrative and Natality in Homer and Virgil.” In Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture: Thresholds of History.
• “Daemonic Allegory: The Elements in Late Spenser, Late Shakespeare, and Irigaray.” Spenser Studies XVIII, pages 315-42.

Links

• The Edmund Spenser Home Page
• Copia, an online resource to further research in Renaissance literature
• The Spenser Review
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
• The Perseus Project: all things from ancient Greece and Rome
• Women in Higher Education
• Luminarium: medieval, Renaissance, 17th-century literature, art, music
• Chaucer: Primary texts, essays, graphics, audio keys to pronunciation, information on life and times
• Arthuriana Complete
• Arthuriana/Camelot Project Bibliographies
• ASLE: Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
• Hay in Art

PhD: University of Michigan, 1983