Caro Pirri
- Assistant Professor
Caro's Affiliations: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Early Modern Worlds
I am an Assistant Professor of English with a specialization in the English Renaissance and the English literatures of the Americas. My work lies at the intersections of Renaissance literature and culture, art and aesthetics, settler colonial studies, and performance theory.
Representative Publications
My first book Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England: Stages of Unsettlement (forthcoming in 2025 from Oxford University Press), shows how English commercial drama’s development as a popular form was deeply imprinted by the textual legacy of early colonial failures in the Americas: from shipwrecks in Arctic Nunangat, to colony collapse in what is now Virginia. By linking techniques of dramatic worldmaking to the placemaking strategies and epistemologies of early conquest, Stages of Unsettlement argues that English drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was also, in some sense, American drama. My most recent essays have appeared in The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies and Renaissance Drama.
Research Interests
I am currently working on two projects: a book that examines representations of colonial domestic violence in Revenge Tragedy, tragicomedy, and domestic tragedy, and a co-edited collection (with Jennifer Waldron) on early modern scalar technologies.