DianneÌýMitchell
- Assistant Professor
DianneÌýMitchellÌýreceived her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and came to Boulder after two years as a Junior Research Fellow in English atÌýThe Queen's College, Oxford.ÌýDianne's work explores the intersections of lyric form, histories of intimacy and sexuality, and the material world of early modern texts. Her first book, Paper Intimacies in the Early Modern Lyric (Penn Press, 2026), is about the surprising forms of intimacy unfurled by Renaissance lyrics as mobile, social, and ever-changing handwritten objects.ÌýDianneÌýloves to write about and teach with manuscripts, wedding approaches from book history, formalist study, and queer theory in her scholarship and classroom. She frequently collaborates with the UK-based scholar Katherine Hunt, with whom she is the editor of the collection Literary Form After Matter 1550-1700: Experiments in Close Reading (Edinburgh, 2026). Dianne is currently working on a new project about poetic manuscripts as archives of erotic possibility.Ìý
Areas of Specialty
- Renaissance Literature
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Poetics Aesthetics