Bio — Kailey Giordano

Biographical Note

Kailey Giordano is a humanities educator and scholar specializing in early modern English literature, with specific focus on literature, ecology, and early modern science. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. Her research examines how seventeenth‑century women writers articulated ecological ways of thinking that challenged emerging models of environmental exploitation. This work is currently being developed into a book‑length project.

Her teaching career spans university, high school, and middle school settings. She has served as English Department Chair, taught high school English and humanities, designed and led middle‑school humanities curricula, and taught university courses in writing and literature. Her work includes curriculum development, program leadership, and extensive experience supporting diverse learners across secondary and postsecondary education.

She is also a poet, with work published by The Jay DeFeo Foundation and Palette Poetry, where her poem “Daphne, 1958” was first runner‑up for the 2025 Love & Eros Prize. Her chapbook Waiting in the Stone is forthcoming with Cathexis Northwest Press.

Scholarly Work

“A Cooke-ham of One’s Own: Constructing Poetic Persona at Nature’s Expense in Aemilia Lanyer’s ‘The Description of Cooke-ham’ and Ben Jonson’s ‘To Penshurst.’” Early Modern Culture vol. 13, no. 1 (2018): 1-17.

Review of Jacqueline Vanhoutte, Age in Love: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Court, Early Modern Cultural Studies Series (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019), Journal for Early Modern Cultural Series, October 2020.

Poetry