Katherine Schaap Williams is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Her work has been published in ELH, English Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, Early Theatre, The Journal for English Cultural Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, and edited collections such as Disability, Health and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body (ed. Iyengar), The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism (ed. Gajowski), and The Changeling: The State of Play (ed. McMullan and Stage). She edited the 1605 play Eastward Ho by George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston, for The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama, edited by Jeremy Lopez (Routledge, 2020).

Her monograph, which brings together early modern English drama, critical disability studies, and performance theory, is entitled Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater (Cornell UP, 2021). It was awarded an Honorable Mention for the Bevington Award for the Best New Book (Medieval and Renaissance Drama Studies and an Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Book Award (Association for Theatre in Higher Education).

She is currently at work on projects focused on disability theory and early modern discourses of sovereignty; Thomas Heywood and the early modern history play; and closet drama and forms of spectatorship.