Katie Walker
@renaissance-magic.bsky.social
Scholar, Mom, Associate Professor of English at University of Nevada Las Vegas
"Magic of the Mundane: Exposing Occult Fraud in Early Modern Drama," Theatre Journal (2025)
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January 1, 2026 at 2:55 AM
"Magic of the Mundane: Exposing Occult Fraud in Early Modern Drama," Theatre Journal (2025)
"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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January 1, 2026 at 2:54 AM
"Horatio in Pieces: Or, How to Deal with Ghosts," Shakespeare (2024)
"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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January 1, 2026 at 2:52 AM
"State of the field: Early modern magic," Literature Compass (2023)
"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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January 1, 2026 at 2:51 AM
"Reading the Early Modern witch as epistemic spectacle," Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes (2022)
“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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January 1, 2026 at 2:48 AM
“Palpable to thinking”: Othello and Gross Conceits, English Literary Renaissance (2022)
“Demonic Temporality in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus,” Journal of Marlowe Studies (2021)
Demonic Temporality in Marlowe’s <i>Doctor Faustus</i>
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January 1, 2026 at 2:46 AM
“Demonic Temporality in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus,” Journal of Marlowe Studies (2021)
"Clowns and Demonic Learning in Doctor Faustus," English Literary History (2020)
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January 1, 2026 at 2:42 AM
"Clowns and Demonic Learning in Doctor Faustus," English Literary History (2020)
"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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January 1, 2026 at 2:39 AM
"Shakespeare and the Magic of Mummy: Julius Caesar's Consumed/Consuming Bodies," Preternature (2018)
"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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January 1, 2026 at 2:33 AM
"Daring to Pry into the Privy Chamber of Heaven": Early Modern Mock-Almanacs and the Virtues of Ignorance, Studies in Philology (2017)
"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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January 1, 2026 at 2:30 AM
"Early Modern Almanacs and The Witch of Edmonton," Early Modern Literary Studies (2015)
"Spectatorship and Vision in The York Corpus Christi Plays," Comitatus (2014)
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January 1, 2026 at 2:25 AM
"Spectatorship and Vision in The York Corpus Christi Plays," Comitatus (2014)
“Sometimes an actor himselfe”: Robert Burton and therapeutic theatricality, Prose Studies (2013)
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January 1, 2026 at 2:21 AM
“Sometimes an actor himselfe”: Robert Burton and therapeutic theatricality, Prose Studies (2013)
No cover yet but coming August 2026!
Instinct, Knowledge and Occult Science on the Early Modern English Stage
Instinct, Knowledge and Occult Science on the Early Modern English Stage
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January 1, 2026 at 2:13 AM
No cover yet but coming August 2026!
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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October 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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.