Research Interests
16th century poetry; historiography; iconography; translations of classical literature
Education
- BA: History; Literature minor, University of California Santa Cruz - Santa Cruz, CA
Dissertation/Thesis Title: Dictated Democracy: Standardizing the American High School, 1890-1930
- MA: English and American Literature, University of New York - New York, NY
Dissertation/Thesis Title: The Spirit and the Body in Legacies of Troilus and Cressida
- Ph D: English, (2012), University of Massachusetts Amherst - Amherst, MA
Dissertation/Thesis Title: : Elizabeth's Fruitless Crown: Ovidian Poetry, The End of Tudor Genealogy, and the Incomplete Past
Biography
My Ph.D. is in early modern literature, and I research sixteenth century poetry’s uses of history and classical literature. Currently I have essays forthcoming in edited collections and have presented my work at a number of national and international conferences. During 2016 I was an organizing faculty member of the First Folio event at the Currier Museum, and I participated in the World Shakespeare Congress in England. My current book project explores Ovidian poetry during the last fifteen years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign as a method to reevaluate political uses of the past and to challenge paradigmatic historiography.
I am an advisor for the Bachelor of Liberal Arts Program and the Coordinator of the Core Curriculum for the University.
Awards and Honors
- Dissertation Fellowship (2007) - University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Teaching Fellowship, English (2006) - Stonehill College
- Walter Chmielewski Fellowship (2002) - University of Massachusetts
- Joseph Langland Prize (2001) - University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Chancellor's Award for Academic Excellence (1995) - University of California Santa Cruz
Publications
- Petersen, K.L. (2017) "Shakespeare and Sententiae: The Use of Quotation in Lucrece," UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. Shakespeare and Quotation (pp. 1-16).
Contracts, Fellowships, Grants and Sponsored Research
- Dissertation Fellowship (2007), Fellowship - University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Teaching Fellow, English (2006), Fellowship - Stonehill College