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Kimberly Huth

Kimberly Huth

Professor

Contact Information
Office: LaCorte Hall, B-322


Kimberly Huth received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her specialties include Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, drama, poetry, and critical theory. Her research examines the intersection of personal, embodied experience and social life in early modern literature and culture; the representations of pain and violence on the stage; and definitions of genre in the Renaissance. Her work has appeared in Cahiers 脡lisab茅thains, Studies in Philology, Renaissance Drama, The Sixteenth Century Journal and Renaissance and Reformation.

Selected Recent Publications

鈥溾楾his Forc猫d League鈥: The Compassionate Body inThe Rape of Lucrece.鈥Renaissance and Reformation听/Renaisance et R茅forme听47.1 (Winter 2024): 137-167.
鈥淎dvancing Him, Subjecting Herself: Class, Gender, and Mixed-Estate Marriages in Early Modern Drama.鈥Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama, eds. Ronda Arab and Laurie Ellinghausen, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023,183-198.

Discharging Pistols at the Sky: Violence and its Failures in Arden of Faversham.鈥 The Sixteenth Century Journal vol. 50 (2019) (forthcoming).

Review of Shakespearean Intersections: Language, Contexts, Critical Keywords, by Patricia Parker. Journal of British Studies 57.4 (October 2018): 865-866.

Figures of Pain in Early Modern English Tragedy. Renaissance Drama 42.2 (Autumn 2014): 169-190.

Have Not They Suffer'd? Pain and Comedic Structure in Shakespeares The Merry Wives of Windsor. Cahiers 脡lisab茅thains 82 (Autumn 2012). 11-19.

Come Live with Me and Feed My Sheep: Invitation, Ownership, and Belonging in Early Modern Pastoral Literature. Studies in Philology 108.1 (Winter 2011): 44-69.

Selected Recent Presentations

鈥淰irtue vs. Fortune inPericles: Naturalizing Class Stratification Through Allegorical Conflict.鈥 Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. Boston, MA, March 2025.
鈥淭ossed from Coast to Coast: Pericles as Emblematic Outsider.鈥 Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Annual Meeting. Palm Springs, CA, November 2024.
鈥淪hakespeare and Social Mobility: Teaching for Transformative Effect.鈥 Roundtable Presentation. Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting. Portland, April 2024.
鈥淎 Tale Too Tedious to Repeat:Periclesand Narrative Silence.鈥 Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Philadelphia, January 2024.
鈥淲hat Remedy?鈥: Agency and Community inThe Shoemaker鈥檚 Holiday.鈥 Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, April 2023.
鈥淭itanic Optimism: Teaching Shakespeare at Non-Elite Institutions.鈥 Roundtable Participant. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. San Francisco, January 2023.
鈥溾楤aser Kind鈥 Meets 鈥楴obler Race鈥: Marriage and Class Transformation in Early Modern English Drama.鈥 Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting. Virtual Conference, April 2021.
鈥溾楾his Forc茅d League鈥: Com-passion and its Failures inThe Rape of Lucrece.鈥 Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting. Virtual Conference, April 2020.
鈥淭he Double Guard: Duplication and Redundancy inThe Spanish Tragedy.鈥 Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting. Washington, DC., April 2019.

Graduate Seminars Taught:

  • ENG 535
    Pain and Violence in Renaissance Tragedy
    Renaissance Poetry: Tradition and Innovation
    Shakespeare: Cognition, Sensation, Emotion
    Practicum in Renaissance Literature: Women's Textuality