Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program Vassar College

Karen Robertson, English and Women's Studies

phone: 845.437.5942
office: SC-303

Karen Robertson received her B.A. from Barnard College, and M.A., and Ph.D. from Columbia University , where she wrote her dissertation on Jacobean revenge tragedy under S. F. Johnson. She has taught at Vassar College since 1982. Her major research interests are Tudor and Stuart drama and women in the Renaissance, and women's letters in the Renaissance. For the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program, she has team taught MRST 220 "Women in Medieval and Renaissance Culture" with both Benjamin Kohl and Christine Reno. She has been coordinator of the program since 1995.

Her recent publications include "Pocahontas at the Masque" Signs and Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliance in Early Modern England (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), a volume of essays co-edited with Susan Frye. She is writing a book on Pocahontas among the Jacobeans, a study of the intersections of gender, race and class in Jacobean England.

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