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

• The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment: Print, Performance, and Gender. Cambridge UP, 2016; paperback reissue 2019.
• "Chaste, Fair, and Bountiful: Marston, Fletcher, and the Countess of Huntingdon's Patronage," Early Theatre, vol. 27, no. 1, 2024, pp. 77-104.
• “Female Masquers and Ambiguity in Timon of Athens.” Renaissance Drama, vol. 51, no. 2, December 2023, pp. 135-50.
• “In Defense of Indulgence: Hester Pulter’s Jane Elegies.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (JEMCS), vol. 20, no. 2, 2020, pp. 43-70.
• “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.