Yunah Kae
Assistant Professor
Yunah Kae specializes in English literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She teaches courses on early modern literature, Shakespeare, and histories of comedy, literary form, gender and sexuality, and race and colonialism. She is currently working on her first monograph, tentatively titled, Distinguishing Race: Performing Knowledge in Early Modern Comedy. Her scholarship is published or forthcoming in Shakespeare Studies, Exemplaria, and ELR, and her research has been supported by the Huntington Library and the Shakespeare Folger Library. She will be a Long-term Fellow at the Folger for AY 2025-26.
Education
PhD English, University of Massachusetts Amherst
MA English Language and Literature, Seoul National University
BA English Language and Literature, Ewha Womans University
Research Interests
Early modern drama, literature, and culture