Catherine Elliott Tisdale

is a PhD candidate in the English Department specializing in Renaissance Drama. Her dissertation, “Adaptive Transformations: Stranger Fictions on the Early Modern Stage” reimagines the cultural and social effect of alien, foreign, and stranger characters on the early modern stage and how they contribute to, alter, and imaginatively build the spaces of alien settlement in and around London. Catherine is the recipient of the 2014 Folger Institute Grant-in-aid for “Mastering Research,” and the 2017-18 Folger Institute Grant-in-aid for yearlong dissertation seminar “Researching the Archive,” with Peter Stallybrass and Ann Blair. Catherine received her BA(hons) from Union College (NY) in 2012 and her MA in Renaissance Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2015.