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Katherine Acheson is a Professor and Associate Dean of Arts (Undergraduate Programs) at the University of Waterloo. She completed her BA at Carleton University, MA and PhD at the University of Toronto, followed by a SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford. She has previously taught at the University of Toronto and Concordia University.
- 1997-present: Professor, University of Waterloo
- 2011: SSHRC 4A Fellowship
- 2008: Paul Mellon Centre Research Grant
Her research focuses on early modern literature and culture with specialization in visual rhetoric, marginalia studies, and book history. Current projects include editing the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing section on print materialities and leading a SSHRC-funded collaborative research initiative on early modern marginalia. She teaches undergraduate courses on seventeenth-century literature and graduate courses on book history.
Key publication themes include:
- Intersections of visual and textual culture
- Gendered dimensions of marginalia
- Renaissance rhetorical practices
- Book use and material culture
Scientific awards include:
- SSHRC Post-doctoral Fellowship (1995-1996)
- Royal Society of Canada Alice Wilson Award (1988)
- Multple SSHRC standard grants
- University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Awards
- Folger Shakespeare Library fellowships
She supervises graduate research in early modern literature, visual culture studies, and book history. Current initiatives explore democratizing access to historical book use research.
