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English Department

Karen L. Griscom

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Office Hours

Days Hours
   
Mondays 10-11
   
Tuesdays 11-1
   
Wednesdays 10-11
   
Thursdays 11-1
   
Also by appointment  
   
Please email me to make an appointment  
   

Classes

Course No. Course Title
   
ENGL 1030 British Literature I
   
ENGL 2030 British Literature II
   
ENGL 1260 Readings in Shakespeare
   
ENGL 1010 Composition I
   

Learning Resources

Literature Links:

Folger Shakespeare Library Open Source edition of Shakespeare’s Plays for ENGL 1260

Project Gutenberg Open Source Books

Internet Archive Non-profit Digital Library

Librivox Open Source Audiobooks

The Libby App Free Library e-books and audiobooks

 

Writing Links:

MLA Style Center Ask the Editors

APA Style Center Tutorials and Webinars

Chicago Manual of Style Citation Quick Guide

The OWL at Purdue Research and Citation Resources

Selected Publications

Select Publications:

Griscom, Karen and Deborah Uman, editors. Women Writers and Translation. Special Issue of Women’s Writing, forthcoming summer 2026.

Griscom, Karen and Karenza Sutton-Bennet. “Annotating the Past: Students’ Critical Engagement with the Lady’s Museum.” Eighteenth-Century Studies Special Issue Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Women’s Caucus, forthcoming May 2026.

Griscom, Karen. “Review of The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 5: 1645–1714 by Margaret J.M. Ezell.” ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1660–1830, vol. 14, no. 1, summer 2024.

Academic Focus

Each semester, I teach British Literature, Readings in Shakespeare, and Composition. I am committed to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion through transparent course design and andragogy practices, including non-disposable assignments and student empowerment through knowledge creation.

Research Focus

I research and write about early modern British literature with a focus on women writers, translation, poetry, manuscript studies, book history, and reception. I am especially interested in cross-cultural exchanges through translation and diversifying the classics.

Presentations and Activities

 

Select Academic Talks

2025

"Translating Pastoral: Women's Intermedial Contributions to the Legacy of Guarini’s Il Pastor fido." Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, March 22, 2025, Boston.

2024

"Cultural Mediation and Translational Networks: Charlotte Lennox's Reworkings in The Memoirs of the Countess of Berci." Imaginary Communities: Reading, Writing and Translating Early Modern Women’s Fiction, October 18, University of Huelva, Spain.

2024

“Annotating the Past: Student’s Critical Engagement with Charlotte Lennox’s The Lady’s Museum.” Invited Talk. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, April 4, Toronto, Canada.

2024

“Afterlives of the Ovid’s Heroides in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Translation.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, April 5, Toronto, Canada.

2023

“Lucy Hutchinson Reads Poetry and History in Shakespeare's Richard II.” Women’s Studies Group 1558–1837, March 9, (virtual).

2023

“The Femme Forte and the Work of Early Modern Women Translators.” The International Margaret Cavendish Society’s Online Olios. January 28, (virtual).

2022

“Lucy Hutchinson Reads Poetry and History in Shakespeare's Richard II.” The Renaissance Society of America. December 1, (virtual).

2022

“‘Loud Sounds of Joy’: Music in Aphra Behn’s Pindaric Odes.” WSG Panel, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, January 7, (virtual) *Winner of the Committee Prize.

2021

“The Serious Work of Being a Translator: Katherine Philips, Reading, Craft, and Theory.” Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 Annual Workshop, For Love or Money? Women, Amateurs, and Professionals, May 2, (virtual).

2021

“Those Wreaths Once Circl’d Pompey’s Brow: Classical Sources in Katherine Philips’s Pompey.” Northeast Modern Language Association, April 29, Buffalo, NY (virtual).

 

Select Service to the Profession

2023–present

Blogs editor, Women’s Studies Group: 1558–1837

2022–present

Editorial Assistant, Women’s Writing, Taylor & Francis Online

2023

Panel Organizer, The International Margaret Cavendish Society’s Online Olios Seminar: “Early Modern Women + Translation”

2022

Panel Chair, The International Margaret Cavendish Society’s Biannual Conference: “Futures”

2021

Technical Support for the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

2019–2020

Nominating Committee for the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts

 

Select Professional Training and Certification

2022–2023

Practical Paleography at the Folger Shakespeare Library (virtual)

2021

"The Handwriting and Culture of Early Modern English Manuscripts," with Heather Wolfe, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, Certificate

2014

"TEI and XML for Humanists," with Laura Mandel and Laura Estill, Texas A & M University, Certificate

2013

"Digitizing the Historical Record," with Bethany Nowviski and Andrew Stauffer, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, Certificate

2013

"Understanding the Pre-Digital Book," with Helène Cazes, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Certificate

Additional Information (Links)

Memberships and Affiliations:

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Modern Language Association

National Writer’s Union, Boston Chapter

Renaissance Society of America

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender

Women’s Caucus, ASECS

Women’s Studies Group: 1558-1837

Contact Information

Leadership

Offices

ELL Coordinator

Kimberly St. Jean

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