Karen Nelson
Karen Nelson is Director of Research Initiatives and Co-Director of the Center for Literary & Comparative Studies in the Department of English at the University of Maryland. Nelson serves as Editor for the Sixteenth Century Journal. Publications include articles on Spenser, Shakespeare, and early modern women writers, and Conflict, Concord: Attending to Early Modern Women; Masculinities, Childhood, Violence: Attending to Early Modern Women--and Men (with Amy E. Leonard); and Women, Writing, and...See more
Karen Nelson is Director of Research Initiatives and Co-Director of the Center for Literary & Comparative Studies in the Department of English at the University of Maryland. Nelson serves as Editor for the Sixteenth Century Journal. Publications include articles on Spenser, Shakespeare, and early modern women writers, and Conflict, Concord: Attending to Early Modern Women; Masculinities, Childhood, Violence: Attending to Early Modern Women--and Men (with Amy E. Leonard); and Women, Writing, and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor and Stuart Britain (with Jane Donawerth, Mary Elizabeth Burke, and Linda Dove). In 2014 the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women bestowed her with a Lifetime Achievement Award. See less