Sigrid King, PhD, is a Professor of English at Carlow University. She teaches Modern British Literature, Shakespeare in the 21st Century, Crime Fiction, Visions of Social Change: Global Women Writers, Myths and Monsters, Literature of Illness and Healing, Women and Film, and The Art of Healing for the Doctorate in Physical Therapy program. She is the recipient of CIC Humanities for the Public Good grants in 2022-23 and 2023-2024, for which she designed and taught a course in which undergraduate students learn how to do research in the International Poetry Forum archives.

She is the editor of Pilgrimage for Love, published by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and the author of articles book chapters, and conference papers on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Shipman, Early Modern literature, global women writers, and censorship. She is the recipient of the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Sisters of Mercy Award for Excellence in Advising.

Education

  • PhD – English, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA (1994)
  • MA – English, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA (1989)
  • BS – English Secondary Education, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA (1983)

Professional Memberships

  • Association of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
  • Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association 
  • National Women’s Studies Association
  • Shakespeare Association of America

Research

Interests: Global Women Writers; Crime Fiction; Renaissance/Early Modern Literature; Mythology; Interdisciplinary Studies

Publications

  • “The Shipman” The Chaucer Encyclopedia, John Wiley & Sons, West Sussex, UK, 2023.
  • “Tradition and Subversion in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism: Stieg Larsson. Gale/Cengage Learning. 2021.
  • “Tradition and Subversion in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” Studies in Crime Fiction, vol. 1, issue 1, 2018.
  • “Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s `The Ultrasound’: Writing Like a Global/Transnational Feminist.” Spectrum. 2010. 6-12.
  • Public Policy Column. Viewpoints. (AAUW newsletter—Pittsburgh branch). 2009-2010.
  • “Naming and Power in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.” rpt. in Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2008. 57-70.
  • “Giovanni Boccaccio.” Arthurian Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Eds. Laura Cooner Lambdin and Robert Thomas Lambdin. Westport, CN: Greenwood, 2008. 110-119.
  • “Teaching Global Social Justice Issues at a Catholic Institution.” Connections (publication of the National Association of Women in Catholic Higher Education). 15.1 Fall 2006. 5-7.
  • “Giovanni Boccaccio.” DLB: Arthurian Legends. Westport Connecticut: Greenwood, 2003.
  • “Lyric Poetry.” A Companion to Old and Middle English Literature. Eds. Robert T. Lambdin and Laura Cooner Lambdin. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2002: 299-314. Print.
  • “The Medieval Lyric.” An Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature. Eds. Robert T. Lambdin and Laura Cooner Lambdin. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2000. 361-376. (This book was named Outstanding Academic Text by CHOICE in 2002).
  • Pilgrimage for Love: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of Josephine A. Roberts. Tempe, Arizona: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1999.
  • “Naming and Power in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Rpt. in Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston. Ed. Gloria L. Cronin. New York: G. K. Hall, 1998. 115-127.
  • “Amazons,” “Censorship,” “Courtship,” and “Sentimentality.” Feminist Literary Theory: A Dictionary. New York: Garland, 1997.
  • “The Shipman.” Chaucer’s Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims of The Canterbury Tales. Eds. Robert T. Lambdin and Laura Lambdin. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1996
  • “From skateboards to Shakespeare: Intellectual Complexity on The Simpsons.” Career Choices. 1996. [Co-authored with Rebecca Stephens].
  • “Naming and Power in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Black American Literature Forum 24 (Winter 1990): 683-696. [Renamed African American Review in 1992.
  • “Sexual Politics and Power in Aphra Behn’s The Rover.” Proceedings of the LSU/TAMU Conference on Languages and Literature. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1991.

Awards & Recognition

  • Recipient, CIC/Humanities Research for the Public Good Sustaining Grant for Work with the International Poetry Forum Archives (2022 – 2023)
  • Recipient, CIC/Humanities Research for the Public Good Grant for work with the International Poetry Forum archives (2021 – 2022)
  • Recipient, CIC/Center for Hellenic Studies Grant for the Greek Hero Seminar (2019)
  • Recipient, Sabbatical Grant for Research at the British Library, London
  • Recipient, Fides Grant for Research at the Chicago History Museum
  • Recipient, Competitive Release Time Grant,
  • Recipient, Capozzi-Kirr Research Grant for Research at the Folger Shakespeare Library
  • Competitive Release Time Grant
  • Sabbatical Grant for Research at the University of London
  • Sisters of Mercy Award for Excellence in Advising
  • President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
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