"Not what we ought to say"

Katrina, King Lear, and Academic Identity

Authors

Catherine Loomis The University of New Orleans

Abstract

In this biographical narrative, Catherine Loomis recounts her experiences during and immediately after Hurricane Katrina and discusses the storm's effect on her scholarship and teaching.

Author Biography

Catherine Loomis, The University of New Orleans

Catherine Loomis is an Associate Professor of English at the University of New Orleans. Her publications include The Death of Queen Elizabeth I: Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen (New York: Palgrave, 2010), William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume (Detroit: Gale, 2002), and essays on Queen Elizabeth, performance history, and early modern women writers. She is currently editing a collection of early modern poems and short prose works in which male narrators impersonate women.