Kyra Cornelius Kramer is a freelance academic with BS degrees in both biology and anthropology from the University of Kentucky, as well as a MA in medical anthropology from Southern Methodist University. She has written essays on the agency of the Female Gothic heroine and women’s bodies as feminist texts in the works of Jennifer Crusie. She has also co-authored two works; one with Dr. Laura Vivanco on the way in which the bodies of romance heroes and heroines act as the sites of reinforcement of, and resistance to, enculturated sexualities and gender ideologies, and another with Dr. Catrina Banks Whitley on Henry VIII.
Ms. Kramer lives in Bloomington, IN with her husband, three young daughters, assorted pets, and occasionally her mother, who journeys northward from Kentucky in order to care for her grandchildren while her daughter feverishly types away on the computer.
Hi, Kyra – I’m fascinated, as many are, with Henry VIII. Just wondering if the queen will ever allow him to be dug up – I don’t understand why it hasn’t been done already. Seems to me there would be a lot to gain from that study.
Hoping to hear from you about this.
Well, no one (to my knowledge) has asked her if they can yet. The reports that Dr. Whitley or myself had done so were exaggerated to the point of distortion. You have to have funding, a plan, and a team to even start the ball rolling about exhuming HVIII. The funding is, ironically, the hardest part and the part least likely to happen. I am hopeful that he will be disinterred for research one day, but only hopeful … not sure of it in the least. Let’s all cross our fingers!