Coppélia Kahn was among the first to introduce the question of gender into Shakespeare studies, in her book Man's Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare (1981) and many articles. She also wrote Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds, and Women (1997), and co-edited Making A Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism (1985), which was translated into Japanese and Chinese. Her current research concerns race and national identity in 20th c. English and American constructions of Shakespeare.

My current research concerns the creation of Shakespeare as a cultural icon in the 19th and early 20th centuries in discourses of race and empire.

McEnerney Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley, 1965-66

ACLS travel grants, 1981, 1986

Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship, 1988

UTRA Grant, Brown University, summer 1989

Shakespeare Society of Japan travel grant, 1991

UTRA Grant, Brown University, 1991

Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University, January-June 1993

UTRA Grant, Brown University, 1993

Research Fellowship, Huntington Library, March 1996

Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Fellow in the Humanities, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA, awarded for 1997-98, deferred to 1998-99

UTRA Grant, Brown University, summer 2000

NEH Summer Stipend for Research ($5000), July-August 2003

Brown University Departmental Research Fund grant ($1500),
May-June 2003

Brown University Dean of the Faculty travel grant ($2,000),
for travel to Shakespeare Society of India meeting, March
2003

Folger Shakespeare Short Term Library Fellowship, January and
May, 2004

Research grant, English Department, $1,000, 2004

Research grant, English Department, $1,000, 2005 Research Grant, English Department, $1150, 2006

Folger Shakespeare Library, research grant for "Shakespeare in American Education, 1607-1934," conference held March 16-17, 2006, Washington, D.C.

Faculty Fellow, Pembroke Seminar 2007-8 (one-course relief, Fall 2007)

Humanities Research Grant, English Department, $777.00, 2009

International Travel Fund Grant, Brown University, to speak at conference in Simla, India, co-sponsored by Shakespeare Society of India and Indian Institute for Advanced Study, $750.00

Seven College Conference Scholarship, Barnard College, 1957-61

McEnerney Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley, 1965-66

Honorable Mention, Florence Howe Prize, 1978

Visiting Professor, Department of English, UCLA, 1986-87

Faculty Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, fall 1980

Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University, January-June 1993

Visiting Professor, University of Torino, March 1996

Noted Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia, July-August 1997

Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Fellow in the Humanities, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA, awarded for 1997-98, deferred to 1998-99

Director, Folger Shakespeare Institute seminar, "The Making of Shakespeare(s)," January-April 2004

Shakespeare's Birthday Lecture, Folger Shakespeare Library, April 26, 2004

Modern Language Association

Renaissance Society of America

Shakespeare Association of America

International Shakespeare Association

Every year, I teach a lecture course in Shakespeare covering the span of his career, and a graduate seminar in Renaissance drama not by Shakespeare. Next year, however, I will teach a graduate seminar in the construction of Shakespeare as a cultural icon, covering four centuries of bardolatry, including the engagement of Shakespeare in the construction of an American national identity. In 2006, I am again teaching "Between Gods and Beasts: the Renaissance Ovid," a course in Ovid's Metamorphoses that I initiated last year. After reading the entire Metamorphoses, we study works by Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton that draw on Ovidian tales, themes, and literary styles. Other regular course offerings include an undergraduate Shakespeare seminar for upperclassmen, and a course in English drama 1300-1700, spanning the medieval, Renaissance, and Restoration periods.