Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich
Associate Professor
She/her/hers
227 Ovalwood Hall
Ovalwood Hall
Mansfield campus
Areas of Expertise
- Renaissance literature
- Theater history
- Early modern women writers
- Gender and sexuality studies
- Shakespeare
- History of the book
Education
- PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, 2009
Elizabeth Kolkovich specializes in early modern literature with emphasis on gender and theater history. Her first book, The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment: Print, Performance, and Gender (Cambridge, 2016), analyzes the politics of a unique kind of pageantry. More recently, her research explores the relationship between Tudor-Stuart festivity and professional drama, and she is writing a book on masques in staged and printed Shakespeare. As a feminist scholar, she also researches the ways women shaped early modern literature. Current interests include the seventeenth-century poet Hester Pulter and the reading, correspondence and patronage networks of Elizabeth Stanley Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1588-1633). She is a contributing editor to The Pulter Project.
Kolkovich has won several awards and grants for her teaching and research, including the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching (Ohio State’s highest teaching honor), the Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award, short-term fellowships at the Huntington Library and Mansfield campus awards for both Excellence in Teaching and Excellence in Scholarship. Her published essays have appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Bulletin and several edited collections.
Selected Publications
- The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment: Print, Performance, and Gender. Cambridge UP, 2016; paperback reissue 2019.
- “Queering Poins: Masculinity and Friendship in Henry IV, The Hollow Crown, and the RSC’s ‘King and Country.’” Shakespeare Bulletin, vol. 36, no. 4, 2018, pp. 635-56.
- “Women Dancing the Morris in Fletcher and Shakespeare’s The Two Noble Kinsmen, 1613-2015.” Shakespeare (the journal of the British Shakespeare Association), vol. 13, no. 2, 2017, pp. 164-79.
- “Performing Patronage, Crafting Alliances: Ladies’ Lotteries in English Pageantry." The Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern Literature and Culture, edited by Christina Luckyj and Niamh J. O’Leary. U of Nebraska P, 2017, pp. 107-25.
- “Pageantry, Queens, and Housewives in the Two Texts of The Merry Wives of Windsor.” Shakespeare Quarterly 63.3 (2012): 328-54.
