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Nikki Roulo is an Assistant Professor at Peru State College. She earned her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She previously has taught at both the University of North Carolina and Pennsylvania State University where she taught a variety of literature and writing courses, such as Introduction to Drama, Introduction to Fiction, and Writing in Law. Her work has appeared in various journals including Renaissance Quarterly and Shakespeare Quarterly. Currently, she is working on her first monograph, Changeling Humorists: The Speech Acts of the Early Modern English Fool.  

My research focuses primarily upon early modern English literature and in particular, the intersections of poetics and performance, the fool figure, ballads and politics. My monograph-in-progress, Changeling Humorists: The Speech Acts of the Early Modern English Fool traces the intellectual history of the fool figure through the seventeenth century. It explores how the fool democratizes an access to public voice and transfers a form of sovereignty to its audience. Currently, I am also editing Robert Armin’s Quips upon Questions for Digital Renaissance Editions. 

Worthen, W. B. Shakespeare, Technicity and the Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2020. In Shakespeare Quarterly 72 No. 1-2 (2022): 171-173. 

Henze, Catherine. Robert Armin and Shakespeare’s Performed Songs. New York: Routledge
Press, 2017. In Renaissance Quarterly. 71 No. 4 (2018): 1554-1555. 

Marno, David. Death Be Not Proud: The Art of Holy Attention. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2016. In Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 18 No. 2 (2018): 175-177. 

Williams, John Sibley. Skin Memory (Holbrook: Blackwaters Press, 2019). In Carolina Quarterly (June 2020): n.p.