Education

PhD University of Chicago (1991)

MA University of Chicago (1986)

BA Dartmouth College (1985)

Interests

Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century British Literature, Reformation religions and politics; gender/sexuality; early modern women’s writing; Shakespeare editing; humanism.

Selected Publications

Professor McEachern’s monographs of early modern scholarship include Believing in Shakespeare: Studies in Longing (CUP, 2018), and The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590-1612 (CUP, 1996).  She has edited two essay collections: The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy (2^nd edition, 2014), and (with Debora Shuger) Religion and Culture in the English Renaissance (CUP, 1997).  She is also an editor of Shakespeare’s plays, including the Arden 3 Much Ado About Nothing (Thomas Nelson, 2005; 2nd edition, 2015), Richard II(NCS, 2019), Twelfth Night (Barnes and Noble, 2017), King Lear (Longman 2004), and for the Penguin series, All’s Well that Ends Well (2001), King John (2000), 1Henry IV (2000), 2 Henry IV(2000) and Henry V (1999).  Recent articles include “National Playwright” in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Authorship (OUP, 2025); “Devotional Poetry,” in The Oxford History of Sixteenth-Century British Poetry (OUP 2022); “Foreign War,” in the Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War (CUP 2021); and “Dramatic Irony in Shakespeare and Calvin,” Oxford Handbook of Calvinism (OUP 2021). In addition to her scholarship, she has also published a work of creative nonfiction, Coyotes and Culture: Essays from Old Malibu (University of Nevada Press, 2025), including the essay “The Fire Files,” published in Los Angeles Review of Books:  (December 2019).