Kelly Duquette Williams

Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow

Member Of:
  • School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Office Location: Skiles 313
Related Links:
Email Address: kduquette3@gatech.edu

Overview

Personal Pronouns:
she/her/hers

Kelly Duquette's research focuses on pre-modern race studies, environmental science, and histories of science more generally. Her current book project is Scorched Earths: Extraction and Ecology in Early Modern Literature. Scorched Earths locates our modern climate crisis in premodern ideas about the environment, namely ecophobia and ecocide, and argues that early modern literature both documents England’s emerging military-industrial complex and promotes an environmental ethos founded upon extractive processes.

Duquette has published scholarship in the journal Shakespeare and the edited volume, Inclusive Shakespeares: Identity, Pedagogy, Performance. Inspired by her material science and engineering students at Georgia Tech, Duquette is currently working on research related to Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine plays and the history of asphalt industrialization. She received her Ph.D. in English from Emory University in May 2023.

Education:
  • PhD, English, Emory University
  • MA, Irish Literature and Culture, Boston College
  • BA, English, University of Florida
Areas of
Expertise:
  • Early Modern Literature
  • Ecocriticism
  • History Of Science And Technology
  • Premodern Race Studies
  • Shakespeare

Interests

Research Fields:
  • Literary and Cultural Studies
  • Science and Technology Studies
Issues:
  • Environment
  • Gender
  • Race/Ethnicity
  • Disability
  • Drama and Theater Studies
  • Literary Theory
  • Literature
  • Poetry
  • Post-Colonialism
  • Queer Studies
  • Science and Technology

Courses

  • ENGL-1101: English Composition I
  • ENGL-1102: English Composition II

Publications

Journal Articles

Chapters

Internet Publications