Caroline Bicks

Caroline Bicks is the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine, where she teaches courses in Shakespeare, early modern culture, and horror fiction. She is the author of Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare’s World and Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England; co-author of Shakespeare, Not Stirred: Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas; and co-host and co-creator of the Everyday Shakespeare podcast. Her essays and humor pieces have appeared in the Modern Love column of The New York Times and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. The first scholar granted extended access to Stephen King’s personal archives, Bicks chronicles the discoveries she made into the master of horror’s writing process in her new book, Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King.