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Beth Quitslund

Beth Quitslund

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Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs; Professor of English
English
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Education

  • Ph.D. in English, University of California, Berkeley, 1997
  • A.B. in History & Literature, Harvard College, 1991

Courses Taught

  • ENG 2020: Introduction to Poetry and Drama
  • ENG 2510: British Literature I
  • ENG 3120: English Literature 1500 to 1650
  • ENG 3010: Shakespeare
  • ENG 4600: Choose Your Capstone Literature
  • ENG 4640: Milton
  • ENG 6130: Topics in Early Modern British Literature (including Devotional Literature)
  • ENG 6170/7170: Topics in Milton (including Paradise Lost and Its Fantastic Legacy)

Biography

Dr. Beth Quitslund is a Professor of English and currently serves as the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at 红杏视频. In this role, she is responsible for facilitating faculty processes, shared governance, and faculty professional development. This includes overseeing the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment and the Office of Instructional Design, and she has administrative responsibilities for the Chairs & Directors Council, Associate Deans Council, and the Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (TLA) Committee.

Previously, Dr. Quitslund served as Chair of the English Department and (twice) Interim Associate Dean of the Graduate College. Other roles and responsibilities during her time as OHIO faculty include stints as Faculty Senate Chair, Chair of the University Curriculum Council鈥檚 Individual Course Committee, and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Chairs & Directors Council, as well as Vice Chair of the state-wide 红杏视频 Faculty Council.

She holds degrees in History & Literature (A.B.) from Harvard College and English (Ph.D.) from the University of California at Berkeley. Her scholarship focuses on the literature and culture of the English Renaissance and Protestant Reformation, with areas of interest in poetic form, Reformation liturgies and worship, Biblical translation, and mostly mediocre religious lyrics.

Selected Awards and Fellowships

  • Konneker Fund for Learning and Discovery Grant for Reimagining OHIO鈥檚 General Education Program: Implementation & Assessment, 红杏视频 Foundation; co-investigator, 2020-22.
  • Mid-Atlantic Conference Academic Leadership Development Program Fellowship, 2017鈥18
  • 红杏视频 Chapman/Clapp Outstanding Advisor Award, 2015
  • Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship Grant, Calvin College, 2012鈥13
  • Folger Shakespeare Library Short-term Fellowship, 2010

Journal Article, Academic Journal (8)

  • Quitslund, B. (2019). 鈥溾榃ithout pity heare their dying grones鈥: Metrical Psalms and the Poetry of Sacred Violence.鈥. 3. Religion and Literature; 49: 152-62.
  • Quitslund, B. (2018). 鈥溾楢 Second Bible鈥: Liturgy and Interpretation in the Expositions of John Boys.鈥. 1. Reformation; 23: 79-99.
  • Quitslund, B. (2015). Afterword: The Tudor Legacy. 4. Renaissance Studies; 29: 671-7.
  • Quitslund, B. (2005). 鈥淭eaching Us How To Sing?: The Peculiarity of the Sidney Psalter.鈥. Sindney Journal; 23: 83-110.
  • Quitslund, B. (2003). 鈥淒espair and the Composition of the Self.鈥. Spenser Studies; 17: 91-106.
  • Escobedo, A., Quitslund, B. (2003). 鈥淚ntroduction. Sage and Serious: Milton鈥檚 Chaste Original.鈥. 4. Milton Quarterly; 37: 179-83.
  • Quitslund, B. (2000). 鈥淓lizabethan Epideixis and the Spenserian Art of State Idolatry.鈥. 1. The European Legacy; 5: 29-48.
  • Quitslund, B. (1999). 鈥淚dologographies: Versions of Miltonic Iconoclasm.鈥 [review essay]. 1. Milton Quarterly; 33: 22-7.

Book, Scholarly (2)

  • Quitslund, B., Temperley, N. (2018). The Whole Book of Psalms: A Critical Edition of the Texts and Tunes. 2 vols.. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Arizona State University Press); xlviii + 1096 pp.
  • Quitslund, B. (2008). The Reformation in Rhyme: Sternhold, Hopkins and the English Metrical Psalter, 1547鈥1603. Aldershot: Ashgate; x + 322.

Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book (7)

  • Quitslund, B. (2025). The Reformation. Routledge.
  • Quitslund, B. (2020). 鈥淐ontinuous Sellers and Their Buyers: A Brief Survey of Unknowns.鈥. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Arizona State University Press); IV: 149-160.
  • Quitslund, B. (2016). 鈥淧rotestant Theology and Devotion.鈥. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 291-300.
  • Quitslund, B. (2014). Old Wine in New Boxes: Niche Bibles and the King James Version. Pittsburgh, PA: Dusquesne University Press.
  • Quitslund, B. (2013). The Psalm Book. Aldershot: Ashgate; 203-212.
  • Quitslund, B. (2012). "Singing the Psalms for Fun and Profit". Aldershot: Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain, Ashgate ; 237-58.
  • Quitslund, B. (2000). 鈥淧erforming Reformation in the New World.鈥. Port of Spain: National Carnival Commission of Trinidad and Tobago.

Book, Non-Scholarly (1)

  • Quitslund, B. (2004). 鈥淭he Virginia Company, 1609鈥1624: Anglicanism鈥檚 Millennial Adventure.鈥. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers; 43-114.

Other (4)

  • Quitslund, B. (2012). "Psalms and psalters, metrical". Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Quitslund, B. (2012). Psalms (Book of the Bible). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
  • Quitslund, B. (2012). Psalms 1-8. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
  • Quitslund, B. (2008). 鈥淭he Whole Book of Psalms Collected into English Meter (a.k.a. 鈥楽ternhold and Hopkins鈥).鈥. New York, NY: Facts on File; 464-5.

Published Book Review (12)

  • Quitslund, B. (2022). Review of Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth Century England . 1. Online: The Spenser Review; 52: .
  • Quitslund, B. (2018). Review of Singing the Resurrection: Body, Community, and Belief in Reformation Europe, Erin Lambert. 3. Sixteenth Century Journal; 49: 898-900.
  • Quitslund, B. (2017). Review of Kenneth J. E. Graham, Disciplinary Measures from the Metrical Psalms to Milton, (London: Routledge, 2016).. 3. Modern Philology; 115: [3 pp].
  • Quitslund, B. (2016). Review of Picturing Religious Experience. George Herbert, Calvin, and the scriptures, by Daniel W. Doerksen. (Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 2011; paperback 2013).. 2. Journal of Ecclesiastical History; 67: 435-6.
  • Quitslund, B. (2014). Daniel Swift, Shakespeare's Common Prayers. 2. Chicago: Modern Philology; 112: E168-E171.
  • Quitslund, B. (2014). Clare Costley King'oo, Miserere Mei. 3. Chicago, IL: Renaissance Quarterly; 67: 1036-37.
  • Quitslund, B. (2013). Gordon Campbell, Bible: The Story of the King James Version and Gordon Campbell, ed., The Holy Bible: Quatercentenary Edition. 1. Milton Quarterly; 47: 48-50.
  • Quitslund, B. (2012). Christopher Marsh, Music and Society in Early Modern Britain. 2. Renaissance Studies; 26: 314-316.
  • Quitslund, B. (2011). "The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume II. The 1671 Poems: Paradise Regain鈥檇 and Samson Agonistes. Ed. Laura Knoppers." [review]. 2. Sixteenth Century Journal; 42: 582-4.
  • Quitslund, B. (2010). "The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace--Brian Cummings" [review]. 1. Religious Studies Review; 36: p. 85. .
  • Quitslund, B. (2006). Review of Hannibal Hamlin, Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).. 3. Milton Quarterly; 40: 250-1.
  • Quitslund, B. (2000). 鈥淭he Divine Right to Bear Arms,鈥 Review of Michael Lieb, Children of Ezekiel: Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End Time. (Durham: Duke, 1998). 4. Milton Quarterly; 34: 129-31.