Dr. Ellinghausen came to UMKC in 2003. She is a scholar of early modern English literature, including Shakespeare, with a specialization in class studies, labor studies, and the literature of early British empire. Her most recent monograph addresses representations of the common seaman and his labor in the imaginative works of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain. She has also published a modernized critical edition of a 1590 Lord Mayor's show for the scholarly database Map of Early Modern London. Ellinghausen also has an interest in Shakespearean pedagogy, having edited a book of essays about teaching Shakespeare's English history plays for the Modern Language Association. When not in the library or the classroom, she teaches yoga and meditation at a local studio and throughout Kansas City.
Ph.D. in English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Shakespeare, Milton, other Renaissance drama and poetry; Anglo-Mediterranean exchange in early modern literature
Pirates, Traitors, and Apostates: Renegade Identities in Early Modern English Writing. University of Toronto Press, 2017.
Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s English History Plays. MLA Publications, 2017.
Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567-1667. Ashgate Publishing, 2008.