Kasey Evans
Assistant Professor of Literature
University Hall 303
Telephone: 847-491-7135
Fax: 847-467-1545
E-mail: ksevans@northwestern.edu
Kasey Evans (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) teaches and writes about medieval and Renaissance literature. She is currently completing her book Colonial Temperance: The Strategy of Virtue in Early Modern England, which argues that the virtue of temperance underwent a semantic sea-change during the English Renaissance, evolving from a paradigm of self-discipline and moderation into a value of time-management, efficiency, and colonial aggression. Areas of particular interest include English Renaissance adaptations of Italian poetry (Dante, Ariosto, Tasso); ideologies of race, gender, and sexuality as they shape Renaissance English literature; and literary and critical theory, from medieval exegetes through postmodern philosophers.
