Karen Newman's books include Fetal Positions: Individualism, Science, Visuality (Stanford, 1996); Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama (Chicago, 1991); and Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character: Dramatic Convention in Classical and Renaissance Comedy (Methuen, 1985) and Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris (Princeton, 2007). Her articles have appeared in various journals, including PMLA, Shakespeare Quarterly and Renaissance Drama. She is on the editorial board of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies and has held numerous fellowships including a Guggenheim and an NEH.