Coppélia Kahn

Teaches at The Newberry

Coppélia Kahn, Professor of English, Emerita, at Brown University, has published widely on feminist theory, Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and Shakespeare’s place in American culture. She is the author of Man’s Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare (1981), one of the first books to bring feminist theory to the study of Shakespeare, and Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds and Women (1997). Most recently, she co-edited with Clara Calvo Celebrating Shakespeare: Commemoration and Cultural Memory (2015).