Laura Kolb
(she/her)
Associate Professor of English, Baruch College, CUNY
Laura Kolb teaches at Baruch College, CUNY. She offers courses in Shakespeare, early modern poetry and drama, women’s writing, and Great Works. She is the author of FICTIONS OF CREDIT IN THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE (Oxford 2021) and co-editor of EARLY MODERN DEBTS, 1550-1700 (Palgrave 2020).
Contact
Website
Education
PhD, English, The University of Chicago, 2014
BA, English, Columbia University, 2003
Positions
Books
Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Early Modern Debts, 1550-1700. Co-edited with George Oppitz-Trotman. Palgrave, 2020.
Articles
“Feminine Performance in The Taming of the Shrew: Final Speech and Missing Soliloquy.” Renaissance Drama 50.2 (Fall 2022).
“Debt’s Poetry in Timon of Athens.” SEL 58.2 (Spring 2018).
“Jewel, Purse, Trash: Reckoning and Reputation in Othello.” Shakespeare Studies 44 (2016).
“Stella’s Voice: Echo and Collaboration in Astrophil and Stella 57 and 58.” The Sidney Journal 30.1 (2012).
“Playing with Demons: Interrogating the Supernatural in Jacobean Drama.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 43.4 (2007).
Book Chapters
“Wench, Witch, Wife, Widow: The Power of Address Terms in The Witch of Edmonton.” Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama, edited by Ronda Arab and Laurie Ellinghausen. Palgrave, 2023.
“Debt Letters: Epistolary Economies in Early Modern England.” Early Modern Debts, 1550-1700, edited by Laura Kolb and George Oppitz-Trotman. Palgrave, 2020.
“Jonson’s Old Age: the Force of Disgust.” Disgust in Early Modern English Literature, edited by Natalie K. Eschenbaum and Barbara Correll. Routledge, 2016.
Book Reviews
“Defamatory Petitions.” Review of Joseph Mansky, Libels and Theater in Shakespeare’s England. The Times Literary Supplement. 23 February 2024.
Review of Pamela Allen Brown, The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata. MLQ 85, no. 1. March 2024.
Review of Julianne Werlin, Writing at the Origin of Capitalism: Literary Circulation and Social Change in Early Modern England. Genre 55, no. 3. December 2022.
“The Makers of Manners: 150 Years of Henry V Criticism.” Review of Joseph Candido, ed., The Arden Shakespeare’s Critical Tradition: Henry V. The Times Literary Supplement (TLS). July 22, 2022.
Review of Holly Crocker, The Matter of Virtue: Women’s Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare. The Shakespeare Newsletter 70, no. 2. Spring/Summer 2021.
“Shame.” Review of Miranda Fay Thomas, Shakespeare’s Body Language: Shaming Gestures and Gender Politics on the Renaissance Stage. TLS. July 3, 2020.
Review of Evan A. Gurney, Love’s Quarrels: Reading Charity in Early Modern England. Renaissance Quarterly 73, no. 1. 2020.
“So wise so young: Reading family drama in Shakespeare.” Review of Emma Whipday, Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies: Violence in the Early Modern Home and Charlotte Scott, The Child in Shakespeare. TLS. November 29, 2019.
“Pretty sprinkled judgement: The textual chemistry of Shakespeare’s sources.” Review of Dennis McCarthy and June Schlueter, “A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels” by George North: A newly uncovered manuscript source for Shakespeare’s plays and John Kerrigan Shakespeare’s Originality. TLS. January 11, 2019.
Public Writing
“To You I Owe the Most: Tales of Debt from Shakespeare to the Present Day.” OUP Blog (2 April 2021).
“The Very Modern Anger of Shakespeare’s Women.” Electric Literature (16 February 2019)
The Itemized Life: John Kay’s Notebook, The Collation (19 April 2018)
MEDIA
New Books Network podcast: a conversation with Dr. Zalman Newfield about Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare. March 14, 2023.
