Katie Little

Professor Little specializes in the medieval and early modern period, particularly the religion and literature of late medieval and 16th century England.

Professor Little teaches courses on the history and culture of the Middle Ages and, given her training in English literature, on a wide variety of books, including the Bible, Trashy Books, and medieval poetry.

Professor Little received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley and her PhD from Duke University. She taught at Vassar College and Fordham University before coming to the University of Colorado Boulder in 2011. Her books include Confession and Resistance: Defining the Self in Late Medieval England (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006); Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Late Medieval Poetry (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013); and Humanism and Good Books in Sixteenth Century England (Oxford, 2023). She has also written essays and chapters on late medieval and sixteenth-century literature and co-edited a collection of essays on romance, Thinking Medieval Romance (Oxford University Press, 2018) with Nicola McDonald. Her work has been supported by National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and fellowships from the Center for the Humanities and Arts (at CU-Boulder) and the Herzog August Bibliothek.

At present she is working on a book about the impact of Northern humanism—the ideas of Erasmus of Rotterdam and Philip Melanchthon—on education in England, and she co-edits an online, open-access journal entitled New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession.