Kyle DiRoberto

Kyle DiRoberto, Associate Professor specializing in early modern English drama, poetry, and prose, focuses on Elizabethan and Jacobean poetics, rhetoric, and Shakespearean performance within cultural and political contexts. Professor DiRoberto’s research examines the intersections of gender, religion, and politics during the Reformation and Renaissance, while also engaging broader questions of theory, form, and ideology. Her scholarship incorporates stylistic and linguistic approaches, including computational methods of textual analysis, to uncover patterns in Renaissance verse, prose, and drama. This work highlights the ways literary forms respond to historical upheaval and demonstrates their ongoing relevance in contemporary theoretical and methodological debates.