Katie Walker
@renaissance-magic.bsky.social
Scholar, Mom, Associate Professor of English at University of Nevada Las Vegas
I'm delighted to share that my book, Instinct, Knowledge and Occult Science on the Early Modern English Stage, is now available for preorder w/ @edinburghup.bsky.social! Use code NEW30, for 30% off.🙂 Please recommend that your library purchase a copy! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-instinc...
"Magic of the Mundane: Exposing Occult Fraud in Early Modern Drama," Theatre Journal (2025)
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"Horatio in Pieces: Or, How to Deal with Ghosts," Shakespeare (2024)
Horatio in Pieces: Or, How to Deal with Ghosts
From the early moments in Hamlet when he offers a ‘piece’ (1.1.18) of himself to his readiness to consider a range of folkloric narratives, Horatio’s approach to the supernatural is one marked by f...
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"State of the field: Early modern magic," Literature Compass (2023)
State of the field: Early modern magic
Magic has served as a source of fascination for early modern scholars throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. While critics continue to debate magic's relationship to religion and science, in recent ...
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"Reading the Early Modern witch as epistemic spectacle," Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes (2022)
Reading the Early Modern witch as epistemic spectacle
Les pamphlets sur la sorcellerie et le théâtre anglais du XVIIe siècle contiennent des représentations du corps de la sorcière perçu comme le lieu de la perversion sexuelle, de l’inversion de l’ordre ...
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“Palpable to thinking”: Othello and Gross Conceits, English Literary Renaissance (2022)
“Palpable to thinking”: Othello and Gross Conceits | English Literary Renaissance: Vol 52, No 2
Abstract Beginning with Iago’s insults against Cassio as both “arithmetician” (1.1.18) and “counter-caster” (1.1.30), this essay explores the deep epistemological divides that the two terms suggested ...
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“Demonic Temporality in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus,” Journal of Marlowe Studies (2021)
Demonic Temporality in Marlowe’s <i>Doctor Faustus</i> | Journal of Marlowe Studies
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"Clowns and Demonic Learning in Doctor Faustus," English Literary History (2020)
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"Shakespeare and the Magic of Mummy: Julius Caesar's Consumed/Consuming Bodies," Preternature (2018)
Shakespeare and the Magic of Mummy: Julius Caesar's Consumed/Consuming Bodies
ABSTRACT. I argue in this article for a reconsideration of Shakespeare's play in light of the phenomena of eating mummified flesh in early modern medicinal practice. At various junctures in Julius Cae...
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"Daring to Pry into the Privy Chamber of Heaven": Early Modern Mock-Almanacs and the Virtues of Ignorance, Studies in Philology (2017)
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"Early Modern Almanacs and The Witch of Edmonton," Early Modern Literary Studies (2015)
Early Modern Almanacs and <i>The Witch of Edmonton</i> | Walker | Early Modern Literary Studies
Early Modern Almanacs and The Witch of Edmonton
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"Spectatorship and Vision in The York Corpus Christi Plays," Comitatus (2014)
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“Sometimes an actor himselfe”: Robert Burton and therapeutic theatricality, Prose Studies (2013)
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I'm happy to share my latest article, "Magic of the Mundane: Exposing Occult Fraud in Early Modern Drama," published in @theatrejournal.bsky.social. Here's an interview I did discussing what the article is about.
K. Walker on "Magic of the Mundane"
YouTube video by Association for Theatre in Higher Education
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