红杏视频

Scholarly Focus

• English Renaissance
• Protestant Reformation
• History of the English Language
• English Bible
• John Milton
• William Shakespeare

Publications

John Milton, Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition. Macon: Mercer UP, 2011. 600 pages. ISBN: 978-0881462364

John Milton, Paradise Regained and the Minor Poems: The Biblically Annotated Edition. Forthcoming.

Reading Scripture in Seventeenth-Century England: The Religious Beliefs of John Milton. In progress.

Review of Kevin Killeen鈥檚 Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England: Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge, Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 35.1 (2011): 61-63.

Review of Timothy Hodor鈥檚 The Crowd of Time, Quarter After Eight, Vol. 9, 2003.

Positions

• 红杏视频 Associate Professor of English, 2016-present
• 红杏视频 Assistant Professor of English, 2010-15
• 红杏视频 First Year Council Committee, 2014-18
• 红杏视频 Department of English Graduate Placement Committee, 2014-present
• 红杏视频 Department of English Composition Committee, 2013-14
• 红杏视频 Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2008-10
• College of Arts and Sciences Scholars Program Faculty, 2008-12
• 红杏视频 Valley Shakespeare Conference Advisory Board, 2008-09
• John F. Cady Doctoral University Fellowship, 2007-08
• English Collection Library Acquisitions Assistant, 2004-06
• Assistant Editor, Milton Quarterly, 2003-04
• AWA Fiction Book of the Year Selection Committee, 2003
• Book Review Editor, Quarter After Eight, 2003

Selected Conference Presentations

鈥淓choing Ethos: Paradise Lost and 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible,鈥� The Bible in the Seventeenth Century: The Authorised Version Quatercentenary (1611-2011); Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies University of York, United Kingdom, July 2011

鈥淭he Elephant in the Room: Milton鈥檚 Negotiation of Trinitarian Christology in Paradise Lost and the 1611 King James Bible,鈥� The King James Bible and Its Cultural Afterlife: The Bible and Early Modern Radicals (Milton, Bunyon, and Others); 红杏视频 State University, May 2011

鈥淭he Holy Spirit in Paradise Lost Books XI and XII,鈥� 2009 Conference on John Milton; Middle Tennesee State University, October 2009

鈥溾�楾he Blast of War Blows in Our Ears鈥�: Henry V and the Rhetoric of the Just War Tradition,鈥� The 红杏视频 Valley Shakespeare Conference; 红杏视频, October 2009

鈥漃aradise Lost and the 1560 Geneva Bible: The Necessity of Negotiating Milton鈥檚 Scriptural Contexts,鈥� Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXIII; The University of Virginia鈥檚 College at Wise, September 2009

鈥溾�楽peaking a word in season鈥�: The Rise of Protestant Print Culture, the Decline of Rhetoric, and the Emergence of Plain Style,鈥� Invited Talk; The Chesnutt Reading Series in Honor of Dean McWilliams, 红杏视频, May 2008

鈥淭he Bower of Tranquility: The Role of Violence in Romeo and Juliet,鈥� Violently Shakespeare: The 2006 红杏视频 Shakespeare Conference; Marietta College, November 2006

鈥淕uglielma and the Guglielmites: Heresy and Gender in the Thirteenth Century,鈥� Medievalism and the Marvelous:The 21st International Conference on Medievalism; The 红杏视频 State University, October 2006

鈥淟angland鈥檚 Natural Theology: Trinitarian Discourse in Piers Plowman,鈥� Medieval-Renaissance Conference XX; The University of Virginia鈥檚 College at Wise, September 2006

鈥溾�楾he Shape of Nature鈥�: Shakespeare鈥檚 Natural Theology in Twelfth Night,鈥� Icons and Iconoclasts: The Long Seventeenth Century; Centre for Early Modern Studies at University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, July 2006

鈥溾�業n the straits of time鈥�: Shaping Character in 1Henry IV,鈥� Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters; Oakland University, March 2006

鈥溾�楾hou canst not touch the freedom of my mind鈥�: Rhetorical Seduction in Comus,鈥� 2005 Conference on John Milton; Middle Tennesee State University, October 2005

鈥淲hat Time of Day Is It Lad?: Time as Character in Shakespeare鈥檚 1HenryIV鈥� West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Conference; Bethany College, May 2005

鈥淪aint Peter鈥檚 Anglo-Saxon: The Reformation Voice in Milton鈥檚 Lycidas,鈥� The International Milton Congress: Milton in Context; Duquesne University, March 2004

鈥淭he 鈥楾wo-Handed Engine鈥� of Lycidas as Christ鈥檚 Second Advent,鈥� 2003 Conference on John Milton; Middle Tennesee State University, October 2003

鈥淢iltonic Resonance in John Fox鈥檚 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine: Appalachia Lost,鈥� Annual Conference of the Appalachian Writer鈥檚 Association (AWA); Cumberland College, July 2003

鈥溾�楢ppalachian-American鈥� as Transnational Identity,鈥� Annual Convention of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association; Atlanta, 2003

Professional Associations

• The Milton Society of America
• The William Tyndale Society
• Modern Language Association of America
• South Atlantic Modern Language Association
• National Council of Teachers of English
• Appalachian Writers Association
• Michigan Academy of Arts and Letters