Karen L. Raber

Karen Raber is an American academic specialising in the study of Shakespeare. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Mississippi and served from 2018-2026 as the Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America. She researches and writes on Shakespeare, animal studies, ecocriticism, and posthumanism.

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Animals (Routledge 2020)

Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory (Bloomsbury 2018)

Performing Animals: History, Agency, Theater (Penn State University Press 2017)

Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture (UPenn Press 2013)

The Cultural History of Women: Vol. 3, The Renaissance (Bloomsbury 2013)

Early Modern Ecostudies: From the Florentine Codex to Shakespeare (Palgrave 2009)

Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700, Vol. 6, Elizabeth Cary (Ashgate 2009)

The Culture of the Horse: Status, Discipline, and Identity in the Early Modern World (Palgrave 2005)

Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama (Delaware 2001)