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Kristine Haugen is a Professor of English at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), affiliated with the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. She holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago (1996), an M.A. from Princeton University (1998), and a Ph.D. (2001). Prior to her current role, she served as an Assistant Professor at Caltech from 2005 to 2011. Her research focuses on 17th- and 18th-century British literature, emphasizing the history of reading poetry, humanism, and transnational intellectual connections with Europe.
Her scholarly work spans topics such as biblical criticism in the Dutch Golden Age, the legacy of classical scholars like Richard Bentley and Joseph Scaliger, and the dynamics of the Republic of Letters. She has published extensively in journals like History of Humanities and Journal of the History of Ideas, and authored books including Richard Bentley: Poetry and Enlightenment. Her teaching includes courses on mythology, literary inequality, and John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Haugen’s articles often bridge literary analysis with historical context, exploring themes like prosody in Elizabethan poetry, the role of scholarship in early modern Europe, and the interplay between religion and textual criticism. Her work highlights how intellectual networks and controversies shaped literary and scholarly practices across centuries.
