Faculty
Theresa Krier
Professor of English
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1983
Old Main 204, (651) 696-6810
Email: krier-at-macalester.edu
Theresa Krier teaches courses in ancient, medieval, and Renaissance literature, and in literature and the natural world. She has special interests in the literature of agrarian issues, in early modern natural philosophy, and in the history of poetry. 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 a past editor of The Spenser Review. Lately she is writing on stanza form and temporality. She joined Macalester’s faculty in 2003, after nearly two decades at Notre Dame.
Fall 2008 Courses
Spring 2009 Courses
Other Courses
Recent Essays
- “Gender Studies and Spenser Studies.” Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Spenser Studies, ed. Richard McCabe.
- “Field Poetics.” Review essay of Environment & Embodiment in Early Modern England. Forthcoming in Shakespeare Studies.
- “The Faerie Queene (1596).” In A Critical Companion to Spenser Studies, ed. Bart van Es. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pages 188-209.
- “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, ed. E.J. Bellamy, P. Cheney, M. Schoenfeldt. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pages 46-64.
- “Mère marine: Narrative and Natality in Homer and Virgil.” In Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture: Thresholds of History. Routledge, 2004. Pages 20-37.
- “Daemonic Allegory: The Elements in Late Spenser, Late Shakespeare, and Irigaray.” Spenser Studies XVIII, pages 315-42.
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