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Caroline Bicks is a Professor of English and the inaugural Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine since 2017. She also teaches at the Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont and Oxford, England. Her research focuses on early modern literature, gender studies, and the history of science, with a particular interest in intersections between literature and cultural phenomena. Her recent book Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare’s World (2021, Cambridge UP) explores youth and cognition in Renaissance contexts. She is currently writing Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King (under contract with Hogarth Press), analyzing King’s creative process through archival research.
Her work bridges academia and popular culture, exemplified by the podcast Everyday Shakespeare (2024 Webby Honoree) and co-authored cocktail book Shakespeare's Mixology (2015). She has contributed essays to the New York Times, McSweeney’s, and NPR’s All Things Considered, often blending personal narrative with literary analysis.
- Key Roles: Chair in Literature, Podcast Co-Creator, Public Intellectual
- Research Themes: Literary Trauma, Gender in Early Modern Texts, Archival Studies
