Kris McAbee, Ph.D.

Director, School of Literary and Performing Arts
Associate Professor of English, Affiliate in Gender Studies

Office: 501-U Stabler Hall
Phone: 501-916-5844
Email: [email protected]

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara
  • M.A., New York University
  • B.S., Highest Honors, Vanderbilt University

Areas of Focus

  • Renaissance Literature, Digital Humanities, Feminist Cultural Studies

Selected Publications

Author

  • “Resuscitability and ‘Excellent New’ Early Modern Verse” in New Technologies and Renaissance Studies 2
  • “‘No public glory vainly I pursue’: The Paradox of Printing Sonneteers” in Early Modern Culture
  • “Love Pleasant” and “Humours, Frollicks, etc.” (essays on the Pepysian ballad categories together with ballad selections) in Broadside Ballads from the Pepys Collection

Coauthor

  • “Vexed Impressions: Toward a Digital Archive of Broadside Ballad Illustrations” in Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Culture
  • “Ballad Creation and Circulation” in Broadside Ballads from the Pepys Collection
  • “The English Broadside Ballad Archive: from Theory to Practice” in Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives

Coeditor