Research Interests
Seventeenth-century British literature, seventeenth-century war poetry, women's writing, feminist and sexuality studies, early modern political theory, critical theory, and Milton.
Courses Taught
I teach advanced and survey courses on women's literature, early modern literature, Shakespeare, and Milton. My honors and graduate seminars have included courses on war literature from the classics to the contemporary moment; the relations between sexual and state politics in the early modern periods; Renaissance temporalities and sexualities; and gender and women's literature.
Highlighted Publications
Gray, C. E., & Murphy, E. (Eds.) (2014). Milton Now: Alternative Approaches and Contexts. (Early Modern Cultural Studies). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137383105
Gray, C. (2007). Women Writers and Public Debate in 17th-Century Britain. ( Early Modern Cultural Studies). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230605565
Gray, C. (2023). Print Elegies, Henry Vaughan, and the Everyday Deaths of War. ELH - English Literary History, 90(3), 609-637. https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2023.a907203
Gray, C. (2024). Lucy Hutchinson’s Everyday War: The 1640s Manuscript and her Restoration ‘Elegies’. English Literary Renaissance, 54(1), 76-106. https://doi.org/10.1086/727999
Gray, C. (2022). Mapped in Blood: Civil War and the Israelite State in Abraham Cowley’s Davideis. Modern Philology, 120(2), 161-185. https://doi.org/10.1086/721668
Gray, C. (2020). Leigh, Dorothy. In P. Pender, & R. Smith (Eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing (pp. 1-8). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_52-1
Recent Publications
Gray, C. (2024). Lucy Hutchinson’s Everyday War: The 1640s Manuscript and her Restoration ‘Elegies’. English Literary Renaissance, 54(1), 76-106. https://doi.org/10.1086/727999
Gray, C. (2023). Antigone’s Example: Early Modern Women’s Political Writing in Times of Civil War from Christine de Pizan to Helen Maria Williams by Mihoko Suzuki (review). Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature, 42(2), 383-386. https://doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2023.a913033
Gray, C. (2023). Print Elegies, Henry Vaughan, and the Everyday Deaths of War. ELH - English Literary History, 90(3), 609-637. https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2023.a907203
Gray, C. (2022). Mapped in Blood: Civil War and the Israelite State in Abraham Cowley’s Davideis. Modern Philology, 120(2), 161-185. https://doi.org/10.1086/721668
Gray, C. (2020). Leigh, Dorothy. In P. Pender, & R. Smith (Eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing (pp. 1-8). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_52-1