Karen Kettnich

Senior Fellow

Karen Kettnich is the managing editor of Library Quarterly and has served as a member of the LQ editorial team for more than ten years.  She has managed for The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion, for the Advanced in Librarianship book series, and for the South Atlantic Review.  She has worked for the Folger Shakespeare Library, and taught literature at the University of Maryland, College Park; Loyola University Maryland; the University of California, Santa Cruz; and Clemson University, where she currently teaches in the Department of English.  She has masters’ degrees in English from the University of Maryland and in Shakespeare Studies from the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham (UK).  She also served as a dramaturg for many seasons at the theatre company Shakespeare Santa Cruz.