Natasha Korda
Professor of English
Center for Humanities Room 01OFFC01, 95 Pearl Street860-685-3639
Director, Center for the Humanities
Center for Humanities Room 01OFFC01, 95 Pearl Street860-685-3639
Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Center for Humanities Room 01OFFC01, 95 Pearl Street860-685-3639
BA Columbia University
PHD Johns Hopkins University
Natasha Korda
Natasha Korda (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1995) is Director of the Center for the Humanities, Professor of English, and on the core faculty of the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies program at Wesleyan. Her research interests include early modern English dramatic literature and culture, theater history, women’s social, economic and legal history, and material and visual culture studies. She is author of Labors Lost: Women’s Work and the Early Modern English Stage (2011) and Shakespeare’s Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England (2002), and co-editor of two anthologies, Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama (2011) and Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama (2002). She is currently editing the Norton Critical Edition of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and working on a new project on feminist counter-archives and early modern theater historiography. In 2015 she was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), chaired its 2016 Program Committee, and was elected to serve as President of the SAA in 2020-2021. Her research has been supported by Wesleyan's Center for the Humanities, an International Research Fellowship at Oxford Brookes University, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library, a Charles S. Singleton Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University’s Villa Spelman, and fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She has served on the editorial boards of Renaissance Quarterly, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal and The Stanford Global Shakespeare Encyclopedia, and on executive committees of the Modern Language Association and the Renaissance Society of America. She is on the steering committee of the international Theater Without Borders research collaborative, which convened for its 20th anniversary conference at Wesleyan in June 2019.
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
Fall 2023: Tuesday, 2-4pm, or by appointment.
Office: Center for the Humanities, 95 Pearl St, #102
Courses
Fall 2024
CHUM 348 - 01
Plague and Care-Work
CHUM 381 - 01
Student Fellowship
Spring 2025
CHUM 381 - 01
Student Fellowship
ENGL 349 - 01
Historicizing Sexualities