Bio — Kailey Giordano

Biographical Note

Kailey Giordano is a humanities educator and scholar whose work focuses on early modern English literature, with particular attention to literature, ecology, and early modern science. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, and 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 experience spans university and secondary education, with a focus on writing instruction, humanities curriculum design, and supporting diverse learners. She has taught courses in writing, literature, and digital literacy, emphasizing writing as a process, clear and structured feedback, and approaches that build student confidence and voice. Her work also includes curriculum development, interdisciplinary teaching, and providing targeted academic support to help students strengthen literacy and critical thinking skills.

She is also a poet, with work published by The Jay DeFeo Foundation and Palette Poetry, where her poem “Daphne, 1958” was a finalist 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