Katherine Eggert

Katherine Eggert is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she has taught since 1991. She holds a BA from Rice University (1984) and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (1991).

Her educational background includes:

• BA, Rice University, 1984
• PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1991

Professor Eggert specializes in English Renaissance literature and culture across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with expertise spanning drama, poetry, and prose genres. Her research extends to Shakespearean film adaptations and, more recently, the intersection of literature with early modern science, particularly examining epistemological frameworks governing how knowledge is acquired and limitations of understanding.

She has received distinguished recognition through:

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
• Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship

Research funding has been secured via:

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (year-long)
• Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship (year-long)

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