Kirilka Stavreva

Kirilka (Katy) Stavreva is Professor of English at Cornell College in Iowa, U.S.A., where she teaches and writes about medieval and Renaissance literature, drama, and its performances across historical and cultural divides. She is author of Words Like Daggers: Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England (University of Nebraska Press, 2015) and of numerous essays on early modern popular literature, theatre, and the gender politics of the era, as well as on critical pedagogy that have appeared in book collections and such journals as The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Pedagogy, and Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation. She is a contributing editor of an essay cluster on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy for the journal Pedagogy. Dr. Stavreva’s research and teaching have been sponsored by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the British Academy, the Newberry, Folger, and Huntington Libraries, as well as by her own institution and the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. Her publications have been honored with awards by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the American Library Association.