Specializes in early modern English literature, culture, and intellectual history. Teaches Shakespeare, Milton, Renaissance poetry, and British literature from the Middle Ages through the eighteenth century. Holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
Argues Bacon styled his scientific writing as a kind of second Scripture, paralleling his plan for a new natural history with King James's plan for a new English Bible.
Open Study →Her Study connects to Grade 8 — Idols of the Marketplace, part of the K-12 reasoning curriculum's Idols of Society sequence, where students learn to detect the kind of deliberate rhetorical strategy she traces in Bacon's own prose.
Grade 8 exists at the curriculum-architecture level; its full lessons have not yet been built.Attié has contributed chapters to three edited collections and published articles on Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes in several leading journals, including:
Her current book project, Shakespeare's Everyday Aesthetic, argues that Shakespeare empowers the ordinary through a reverse Platonism in which divine order is shaped by the patterns of the everyday.