Erika Boeckeler

Professor

Erika Boeckeler is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University. Her work spans multiple genres and disciplines: Shakespeare, early modern poetry, History of the Book, early modern art history, early Slavic print culture. She is the author of Playful Letters: A Study in Early Modern Alphabetics and has published on printers’ ornaments in Shakespeare’s plays, sixteenth century widow printers, the poetic typography of the first printed Hamlet, painted writing in German portraiture, on the first architectural alphabet, on teaching in the archives, among other topics.