Caroline Bicks

Caroline Bicks is the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine. She has also taught at the Bread Loaf School of English. Bicks is the author of _Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King_ (Hogarth [US] and Hodder & Stoughton [UK], 2026), _Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World_ (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and _Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England_ (Ashgate, 2003; Routledge, 2017); co-author (with Michelle Ephraim) of _Shakespeare, Not Stirred: Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas_ (Perigee/PRH [US] and Scribe [UK], 2015); co-editor with Jennifer Summit of _The History of British Women's Writing_, volume 2 (Palgrave, 2011); and author of numerous articles and essays on Shakespeare, gender, and the history of science. She is co-host and co-creator of the Webby-honored Everyday Shakespeare podcast. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in the “Modern Love” column of the New York Times, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and in the show and book _Afterbirth: Stories You Won’t Read in a Parenting Magazine_.