Katie Little

Katie Little received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley and her PhD from Duke University. 

Her primary research interest is in bridging the divide between the Middle Ages and the early modern.  She has published essays on Chaucer’s poetry, the Langland-tradition, Spenser’s debts to Chaucer, and sixteenth-century English humanism.  Her first book explores the late medieval heresy, Lollardy — Confession and Resistance: Defining the Self in Late Medieval England (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006); and the second charts the re-emergence of pastoral — Transforming Work:  Early Modern Pastoral and Late Medieval Poetry (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013).  At present she is working on a book about humanism in sixteenth-century England.

A recent project, in response to the crisis of the humanities, is an online, open-access journal entitled New Chaucer Studies:  Pedagogy and Profession -- https://escholarship.org/uc/ncs_pedagogyandprofession.