Patriarchy runs thick in the Shakespeare industry.
Assumptions about gender and education dilute the value of 17c. Shakespeare nerd's tiny notebook & reenforces the patriarchy of the academy.
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Kristin Bundesen, PhD
- Jan 20
Diversity in the 15th and 16th centuries
CFP-Deadline Extended-Understanding diversity in the 15th and 16th centuries,20-21 April 2023
Edinburgh
Kristin Bundesen, PhD
- Sep 30, 2022
Mary Sidney, Alias Shakespeare?
If a woman wrote the works attributed to Shakespeare, would we view them differently? This is the question in a NYTimes theatre review
Kristin Bundesen, PhD
- Nov 30, 2021
Anne Russell Dudley, Countess of Warwick
Anne Russell Dudley, Countess of Warwick's gender did not bar her from participating in military, domestic, foreign or church affairs.Â
Kristin Bundesen, PhD
- Nov 13, 2021
Biographies of elite women
Monarchs who let their hearts rule their heads tend to court disaster, be they male or female; and there have been plenty of both examples.
Kristin Bundesen, PhD
- Nov 5, 2021
History is not a science experiment
This one is boring but important. Nerd out. Word choice and language have conspired to exclude women from the political narrative.
Kristin Bundesen, PhD
- Oct 23, 2021
Looking for women in history
How did all the women except queens disappear from the historical narrative? Historians write about what is of interest to them.
Kristin Bundesen, PhD
- Oct 15, 2021
In a Century of Queens, where are the girls?
Between 1500 and 1599 there were 165 years of formal female rule - more than 1.5 as many as calendar years.
Kristin Bundesen, PhD
- Oct 10, 2021
The Ya-Ya Sisterhood
In a 'Century of Queens', how could there not be political women? Surely a queen wasn't the only woman in her kingdom interested in politics
Kristin Bundesen, PhD
- Oct 6, 2021
My trip to Nottingham
She said, 'This is Dr. So&So's office. He doesn't admit he has a gender. This is Dr. Ellis's office. It's the largest in the building.
Kristin Bundesen, PhD
- Sep 30, 2021
Two decades later
How Hilary Clinton and Mary of Guise sent me to the archives.
Kristin Bundesen, PhD
- Sep 24, 2021
Then I found Dorothy Dunnett
I found Dorothy Dunnett when I was living in Paris. I had moved there on vague promises from a photographer. The #MeToo era it wasn't.
Kristin Bundesen, PhD
- Sep 20, 2021
How I became an historian
How I became an historian. I met Karen in a community seminar titled "If Rousseau were a woman".
Kristin Bundesen, PhD
- Mar 19, 2021
Adventures of an historian - in which she impersonates a political analyst
I am a bit aghast that I agreed to impersonate a political analyst for a lecture on Elizabeth I.
Kristin Bundesen, PhD
- Dec 4, 2020
2 - Beautiful Mary
What if Mary was not a complacent door mat but a skilled courtesan in the French tradition?
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