McEachern, Claire
Professor
Kaplan 295
Tel: 310.825.5209 / Fax: 310.267.4339 / E-mail
clairemceachern.com
Education
PhD University of Chicago (1991)
MA University of Chicago (1986)
BA Dartmouth College (1985)
Interests
Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century British Literature, Reformation religions and politics; gender/sexuality; early modern women’s writing; Shakespeare editing; humanism.
Selected Publications
Professor McEachern’s books include Believing in Shakespeare: Studies in Longing (CUP, 2018), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy (CUP, 2003; second edition 2014, Religion and Culture in the English Renaissance, ed. with Debora Shuger, (CUP 1997), and The Poetics of English Nationhood 1590-1612, (CUP 1996), as well as several editions of Shakespeare’s plays, including the Arden 3 Much Ado About Nothing (Thomas Nelson, 2005; second edition 2015), Twelfth Night (Barnes and Noble, 2007), King Lear (Longman, 2004) and for the Penguin series, All’s Well that Ends Well (2001) King John (2000) Henry IV part one (2000) Henry IV part two (2000) and Henry V (1999). Recent articles include “Hot Protestant Shakespeare” in The Book in History, The Book as History (Yale, 2016); “From Pity and Terror to Pity and Charity: Shakespeare’s Reformed Characters,” in Cordery, Lindsey, ed., Cervantes, Shakespeare: Prisma Latinamericano, Lecturas Refractados (Montevideo, Uruguay, 2017) “Two Loves I have”: Of comfort and despair in Shakespearean genre,” British Journal of Aesthetics, 2014 (54) 2 191-211; “Shakespeare, Religion and Politics,” in the Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (CUP, 2010), “Spenser and Religion, in The Spenser Handbook (OUP 2010) and “Why do cuckolds have horns?” Huntington Library Quarterly, 71 (2009). In addition to her scholarly work, Professor McEachern is also the author of the creative non-fiction collection Coyotes and Culture: Essays from Old Malibu, forthcoming from the University of Nevada Press in 2025.
Interest Areas
• Renaissance & Early Modern Studies
• Sexuality & Gender Studies
