I am an Associate Professor in the Women's Studies Department and Director of the Group for Early Modern Studies (GEMS). I am also a faculty affiliate in the Department of English and a faculty associate with the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies. Women's Studies is launching a PhD program in the fall of 2008.

I am teaching a graduate course on the History of Feminist Movements and Theories in Fall 2007. In Spring 2008, I am teaching an undergraduate Feminist Theories course and a graduate course on Feminist Methodologies (revised syllabus coming soon).

In my research I take a feminist cultural studies approach to early modern world literature and culture. I am also intersted in women and religion, feminist theories, culture and technology, and critical pedagogies. I maintain a web site on Aemilia Lanyer. My most recent book is Women's Roles in the Renaissance, co-authored with Meg Lota Brown (Greenwood 2005). Other publications include Country House Discourse in Early Modern England: A Cultural Study in Landscape and Legitimacy (Ashgate 2001); an edited collection, Domestic Arrangements in Early Modern England (Duquesne 2002); and "Gender and Judaism in Meditations on the Passion: Middleton, Southwell, Lanyer, and Fletcher," in Discovering and Recovering the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric, ed. Eugene Cunnar and Jeffrey Johnson (Duquesne 2001). Future publications include an edition of Womans Worth, an early seventeenth-century contribution to the woman controversy; a collection on Psalms in the Early Modern World, co-edited with Linda Austern and David Orvis; and a study of Women and Education in England, 1500-1700.  See my curriculum vitae for more information about my teaching and scholarship.

I can be reached by email at kari@email.arizona.edu. My office is in the Women's Studies Department, room 211, at 1431 E 1st St.