KatieÌýLittle
- Professor
Katie Little received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley and her PhD from Duke University. She taught at Vassar College and Fordham University before coming to the ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ in 2011.
Her primary research interest is in bridging the divide between the Middle Ages and the early modern.Ìý She has published essays on Chaucer’s poetry, the Langland-tradition, Spenser’s debts to Chaucer, and sixteenth-century English humanism.Ìý Her first book explores the late medieval heresy, Lollardy —ÌýConfession and Resistance: Defining the Self in Late Medieval EnglandÌý(University of Notre Dame Press, 2006); and the second charts the re-emergence of pastoral —ÌýTransforming Work:Ìý Early Modern Pastoral and Late Medieval PoetryÌý(University of Notre Dame Press, 2013).Ìý At present she is working on a book about humanism in sixteenth-century England.
She is also interested in genre and has co-edited a collection of essays on romance, Thinking Medieval Romance (Oxford University Press, 2018) with Nicola McDonald, and written an essay on Pastoral in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature: .
A recent project, in response to the crisis of the humanities, is an online, open-access journal entitled New Chaucer Studies:Ìý Pedagogy and Profession -- .
Areas of Specialty
- British Literature
- Medieval Literature
- Renaissance Literature