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<div class="field field-user--field-dircore-email field-name-field-dircore-email field-type-email field-label-hidden has-single"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item"><a href="mailto:cathgray@illinois.edu">cathgray@illinois.edu</a></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blockuseruserfield-dircore-research-areas"> <div class="field field-user--field-dircore-research-areas field-name-field-dircore-research-areas field-type-entity-reference field-label-above has-multiple"><h2 class="profile-label">Research Areas</h2><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item"><a href="/research/areas/early-modern" hreflang="en">Early Modern</a></div><div class="field__item"><a href="/research/areas/gendersexuality-studies" hreflang="en">Gender/Sexuality Studies</a></div><div class="field__item"><a href="/research/areas/poetry" hreflang="en">Poetry</a></div><div class="field__item"><a href="/research/areas/theorycriticism" 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field-type-text-long field-label-above has-single"><h2 class="profile-label">Research Interests</h2><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item"><p>Seventeenth-century British literature, seventeenth-century war poetry, women's writing, feminist and sexuality studies, early modern political theory, critical theory, and Milton.</p> <p><span> </span></p></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blockuseruserfield-dircore-courses-local"> <div class="field field-user--field-dircore-courses-local field-name-field-dircore-courses field-type-text-long field-label-above has-single"><h2 class="profile-label">Courses Taught</h2><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item"><p><span>I teach advanced and survey courses on women's literature, early modern literature, Shakespeare, and Milton. My honors and graduate seminars have included courses on war literature from the classics to the contemporary moment; the relations between sexual and state politics in the early modern periods; Renaissance temporalities and sexualities; and gender and women's literature.</span></p></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blockuseruserfield-dircore-affiliation-local"> <div class="field field-user--field-dircore-affiliation-local field-name-field-dircore-affiliation field-type-text-long field-label-above has-single"><h2 class="profile-label">Additional Campus Affiliations</h2><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item"><p>Associate Professor, English<br> </p></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blockuseruserfield-dircore-hilt-pubs-local"> <div class="field field-user--field-dircore-hilt-pubs-local field-name-field-dircore-hilt-pubs field-type-text-long field-label-above has-single"><h2 class="profile-label">Highlighted Publications</h2><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item"><p class="rendering rendering_researchoutput rendering_researchoutput_apa rendering_bookanthology rendering_apa rendering_bookanthology_apa"><span>Gray, C. E.</span>, & Murphy, E. (Eds.) (2014). <span><em>Milton Now: Alternative Approaches and Contexts</em></span>. (Early Modern Cultural Studies). Palgrave Macmillan. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137383105"><span>https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137383105</span></a></p><p class="rendering rendering_researchoutput rendering_researchoutput_apa rendering_bookanthology rendering_apa rendering_bookanthology_apa"><span>Gray, C.</span> (2007). <span><em>Women Writers and Public Debate in 17th-Century Britain</em></span>. ( Early Modern Cultural Studies). Palgrave Macmillan. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230605565"><span>https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230605565</span></a></p><p class="rendering rendering_researchoutput rendering_researchoutput_apa rendering_contributiontojournal rendering_apa rendering_contributiontojournal_apa"><span>Gray, C.</span> (2023). <span>Print Elegies, Henry Vaughan, and the Everyday Deaths of War</span>. <span><em>ELH - English Literary History</em></span>, <em>90</em>(3), 609-637. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2023.a907203"><span>https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2023.a907203</span></a></p><p class="rendering rendering_researchoutput rendering_researchoutput_apa rendering_contributiontojournal rendering_apa rendering_contributiontojournal_apa"><span>Gray, C.</span> (2024). <span>Lucy Hutchinson’s Everyday War: The 1640s Manuscript and her Restoration ‘Elegies’</span>. <span><em>English Literary Renaissance</em></span>, <em>54</em>(1), 76-106. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1086/727999"><span>https://doi.org/10.1086/727999</span></a></p><p class="rendering rendering_researchoutput rendering_researchoutput_apa rendering_contributiontojournal rendering_apa rendering_contributiontojournal_apa"><span>Gray, C.</span> (2022). <span>Mapped in Blood: Civil War and the Israelite State in Abraham Cowley’s Davideis</span>. <span><em>Modern Philology</em></span>, <em>120</em>(2), 161-185. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1086/721668"><span>https://doi.org/10.1086/721668</span></a></p><p class="rendering rendering_researchoutput rendering_researchoutput_apa rendering_contributiontobookanthology rendering_apa rendering_contributiontobookanthology_apa"><span>Gray, C.</span> (2024). <span>Leigh, Dorothy</span>. In P. Pender, & R. Smith (Eds.), <em>The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing </em>(pp. 1-8). Palgrave Macmillan. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_52-4"><span>https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_52-4</span></a></p><p><a href="https://experts.illinois.edu/en/persons/3ac5dff6-41cc-4aab-bbb9-956a1479fd9a">View all publications on Illinois Experts</a></p></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blockuseruserfield-dircore-rcnt-pubs-local"> <div class="field field-user--field-dircore-rcnt-pubs-local field-name-field-dircore-rcnt-pubs field-type-text-long field-label-above has-single"><h2 class="profile-label">Recent Publications</h2><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item"><p class="rendering rendering_researchoutput rendering_researchoutput_apa rendering_contributiontobookanthology rendering_apa rendering_contributiontobookanthology_apa"><span>Gray, C.</span> (2024). <span>Leigh, Dorothy</span>. In P. Pender, & R. Smith (Eds.), <em>The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing </em>(pp. 1-8). Palgrave Macmillan. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_52-4"><span>https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_52-4</span></a></p><p class="rendering rendering_researchoutput rendering_researchoutput_apa rendering_contributiontojournal rendering_apa rendering_contributiontojournal_apa"><span>Gray, C.</span> (2024). <span>Lucy Hutchinson’s Everyday War: The 1640s Manuscript and her Restoration ‘Elegies’</span>. <span><em>English Literary Renaissance</em></span>, <em>54</em>(1), 76-106. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1086/727999"><span>https://doi.org/10.1086/727999</span></a></p><p class="rendering rendering_researchoutput rendering_researchoutput_apa rendering_contributiontojournal rendering_apa rendering_contributiontojournal_apa"><span>Gray, C.</span> (2023). <span>Antigone’s Example: Early Modern Women’s Political Writing in Times of Civil War from Christine de Pizan to Helen Maria Williams by Mihoko Suzuki (review)</span>. <span><em>Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature</em></span>, <em>42</em>(2), 383-386. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2023.a913033"><span>https://doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2023.a913033</span></a></p><p class="rendering rendering_researchoutput rendering_researchoutput_apa rendering_contributiontojournal rendering_apa rendering_contributiontojournal_apa"><span>Gray, C.</span> (2023). <span>Print Elegies, Henry Vaughan, and the Everyday Deaths of War</span>. <span><em>ELH - English Literary History</em></span>, <em>90</em>(3), 609-637. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2023.a907203"><span>https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2023.a907203</span></a></p><p class="rendering rendering_researchoutput rendering_researchoutput_apa rendering_contributiontojournal rendering_apa rendering_contributiontojournal_apa"><span>Gray, C.</span> (2022). <span>Mapped in Blood: Civil War and the Israelite State in Abraham Cowley’s Davideis</span>. <span><em>Modern Philology</em></span>, <em>120</em>(2), 161-185. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1086/721668"><span>https://doi.org/10.1086/721668</span></a></p><p><a href="https://experts.illinois.edu/en/persons/3ac5dff6-41cc-4aab-bbb9-956a1479fd9a">View all publications on Illinois Experts</a></p></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <footer> <div class="publications-listing"> </div><style> @media (min-width: 700px){ article.contextual-region.profile { padding: 0 1rem; 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