Catherine Stearn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Education
- Ph.D, History, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- M.A. The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, (United Kingdom)
- B.A. The College of New Jersey
Research & Academic Interests
- Women’s and Gender History to 1750
Publications
- “Critique or Compliment?: Lady Mary Sidney’s 1573 New Year’s Gift to Queen Elizabeth I,” The Sidney Journal 30.2 (2012), 109-127.
- “Dressing a Virgin Queen: Court Women, Dress, and Fashioning the Image of England’s Queen Elizabeth I,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 4 (2009), 201-208.
- “Addressing the Dead: The Role of Aristocratic Dress on Tomb Effigies in Fashioning Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Family Histories,” forthcoming.
- “Putting the ‘I’ in Iconography: Projects on Queen Elizabeth I’s Royal Image,” Teaching Fashion Studies, ed. Holly M. Kent (NY: Bloomsbury, 2018). 257-264.
- “Grave Histories: Women’s Bodies Writing Elizabethan History,” The Soveraigne Arts, eds. Donald Stump and Carole Levin (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, December, 2011). 69-84.
- “Fashioning Monarchy: Dress, Gender and Power at the Court of Elizabeth I,” The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700, eds. Anne J. Cruz and Mihoko Suzuki (Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2009). 142-156.
Awards & Accolades
- Awarded a semester sabbatical from EKU, Spring 2016
- Nominated for Critical Thinking Teacher of the Year Award, 2011-2012, 2013-2014, 2014-2015.
- Named an EKU Rising Star for 2012
