Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich

Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich

Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich

Associate Professor
She/her/hers

kolkovich.1@osu.edu

419-755-4281

227 Ovalwood Hall
Ovalwood Hall
Mansfield campus

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Areas of Expertise

  • Renaissance literature and culture
  • Theater history
  • Early modern women writers
  • Shakespeare in performance, film, and pop culture
  • Gender and sexuality
  • History of the book and textual editing

Education

  • PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, 2009

Elizabeth Kolkovich specializes in early modern English drama and poetry, with interests in theories of gender, sexuality, and disability. She is writing a book about the history of staging masques in Shakespeare, tentatively titled Shakespeare’s Revels: Remaking Masques for the Public Stage. Additionally, her research and textual editing explore how women shaped early modern literature and theater through writing, performance, and patronage. A contributing editor to The Pulter Project, she writes about and edits the seventeenth-century poetry of Hester Pulter. She is also editing an open-access edition of Elizabeth Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry (1613) for Digital Renaissance Editions and Linked Early Modern Drama Online (LEMDO). She directed the documentary Looking for Mariam, 1613, made with undergraduate students.

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), fellowships at the Huntington and Folger libraries, the Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award, and Mansfield campus awards for both Excellence in Teaching and Excellence in Scholarship.

For updates on current projects, along with links to essays and teaching materials, please visit Kolkovich's website. 

Selected Publications

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