Katie M. Adkison
Assistant Professor of English
Associations
English
About
Education
Ph.D., English Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara (2020)
M.A., English Literature, Colorado State University (2014)
B.A. English Education, Colorado State University (2012)
Research
Katie Adkison is an Assistant Professor of English at Bates with a specialization in early modern literature and culture. Her current book project (tentatively entitled The Sense of Speech: Voice and Sovereignty in Early Modern Tragedy) explores how discourses of the embodied voice in early modern England bled into political debates about monarchy, law, and representation; more specifically, she argues that dramatic tragedy of the period leveraged these intersecting discourses to respond to and critique problems of sovereign power. Other research interests include gender and sexuality studies and theories of literature and the mind — especially in affect theory and phenomenology where the two fields vitally inflect each other — as well as new methodologies in critical making, letterpress printing practices, and the digital humanities.
Courses at Bates
ENG 131: Tragedy and the Drama of Voice
ENG 213: Shakespeare
ENG 214: Shakespeare and Early Modern Racialization
ENG 239: Shakespeare’s Queens
ENG 246: Staging Sovereignty: Theatricality and Early Modern Politics
ENG 395L: Utopia/Dystopia Fiction
ENG 395Q: Reading Feeling: Literature and Affect Theory