Sunday, September 20, 2009

Robert C. Evans / Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE / ROBERT C. EVANS

I. B. YOUNG PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
AUBURN UNIVERSITY AT MONTGOMERY


Education

1978 84 Ph.D., Princeton University
1973 77 B.A., magna cum laude, University of Pittsburgh

Dissertation: “Poetry and Power: Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Patronage”


Academic Honors

1977 Departmental Honors, University of Pittsburgh
1978 79 Richard M. Weaver Fellowship
1978 80 Princeton University Fellowship
1981 82 Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities
1982 G.E. Bentley Prize
l984 Research Fellowship, The Newberry Library
Elected Secretary and Chairman Elect, Shakespeare Section, Mid west Modern Language Association
1985 Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies
1986 Research Grant in Aid, Auburn University at Montgomery
Research Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library
Mellon Fellow, Two week Vanderbilt University Seminar on “Derrida and Deconstruction”
1987 Research Fellowship, The Huntington Library
Nominated as Chairman of the Renaissance Discussion Circle, South Atlantic Modern Language Association Research Grant in Aid, Auburn University at Montgomery
1988 Selected as Preceptor, University Scholars Program
NEH Travel to Collections Grant
Research Grant, American Philosophical Society
Selected by students to be campus sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta (National English Honor Society)
Research Grant in Aid, Auburn University at Montgomery
1989 Research Fellowship, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California at Los Angeles
Research Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library

Selected CASE Professor of the Year for Alabama (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, Washington, D.C.)
1989 recipient of the Faculty Excellence Award, Auburn University at Montgomery
1990 Selected as a member of Omicron Delta Kappa (National Leadership Honor Society)
Research Grant in Aid, Auburn University at Montgomery
1991 Research Grant in Aid, Auburn University at Montgomery
1992 Research Grant in Aid, Auburn University at Montgomery
Approved as advisor, NEH Younger Scholars Fellowship
1993 Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities
Research Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library
Appointed to editorial board, Ben Jonson Journal
1994 Appointed Distinguished Research Professor, AUM
Selected as speaker for state-wide lecture program, Alabama Humanities Foundation
1995 Selected to deliver first annual Phi Kappa Phi lecture, AUM
Made an honorary member of Phi Kappa Phi
Invited to join editorial board, Explorations in Renaissance Culture
1996 Nominated by student for inclusion in Who’s Who Among College
Teachers
Profiled in Contemporary Authors
1997 Selected as chair of the committee of judges for the Bainton Prize
in Literature, given by the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
Selected as director of two-year seminar on critical pluralism
funded by $54,000 grant from the A.W. Mellon Foundation, with most of the money dedicated to student tuition and stipends
Selected as one of three main editors of the Ben Jonson Journal
Selected as second AUM Alumni Professor
1998 Invited to serve as Renaissance literature editor for Comparative Drama
Appointed to National Awards Committee, American Association of University Women
Special Award for Collaborative Work with Students, AUM English Department
2001 Selected as Distinguished Teaching Professor, AUM
2002 Keynote speaker, Utah Shakespearean Festival Wooden O Symposium
Invited to serve on editorial board of Iter/MRTS Bibliography of English Women Writers, 1500 1640.
2003 Invited to serve as book review editor for Renaissance books, Comparative Drama
2005 Invited to join the editorial board of the Renaissance English Texts Society
Selected for inclusion in Who’s Who Among American Teachers
2006 Selected as Professor of the Year by the South Atlantic Association of Departments of English
2007 Selected for membership on the Harper Fund Committee of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, to award stipends to graduate students attending the annual conference.
Invited to become a contributing editor of the Donne Variorum Edition
2008 Selected for membership on the South Atlantic Review Prize committee, to choose the best article published in the previous year of the journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.


Employment History

1982 Instructor of English, Auburn University at Montgomery

1984 Assistant Professor of English, Auburn University at Montgomery
1986 Associate Professor of English, Auburn University at Montgomery
1994 Professor of English, Auburn University at Montgomery


Administrative Experience

1988-90 Director of AUM Honors Program
1994-96 Director of AUM English Department Internship Program
2005-07 Director of AUM Learning Center and Instructional Support Lab


Teaching Experience

Literature 131 (Shakespeare), Princeton, Fall 1980
Literature 151 (Composition), Princeton, Winter 1981
Special tutoring of foreign language student, Princeton, Winter 1981
EH 090 (Developmental Writing), AUM, 3 sections since 1982
EH 101 (Composition), 4 sections since 1982
EH 102 (Composition), 30+ sections
EH 253 (first half, British Literature survey), 10+ sections
EH 258 (second half, American Literature survey), 1 section
EH 260 (first half, Western World Literature survey), 3 sections
EH 299 (Scholars Course): Literature and Society in the English Renaissance
EH 299 (Scholars Course): The Dramas of Ben Jonson
EH 299 (Scholars Course): Religion and Literature: George Herbert and Flannery
O’Connor
EH 299 (Scholars Course): Petrarch and Sidney
EH 399 (Directed Reading): John Donne
EH 399 (Directed Reading): Ben Jonson
EH 399 (Directed Reading): Ovidian Love Poetry
EH 408/608 History of Literary Criticism, upper level undergraduate and
graduate students, 10+ sections; various independent studies
EH 421/621 Sixteenth Century British Literature, 6 sections
EH 431/631 Seventeenth Century Literature, 6 sections
EH 485/685 Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
CE 000 The Poetry of George Herbert (continuing education course)
MLA 621 Profit and Delight: Christian Approaches to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Master’s Program)
MLA 621 Christianity and Literature (Master’s Program)
Special tutoring of foreign language student, fall 1990
Senior University lecture on Renaissance and Southern literature
Community education lecture on Renaissance and Southern literature, Wallace State College, Dothan, Alabama
Two community education lectures on Renaissance and modern literature, Wallace State College, Dothan
Special community study group on Paradise Lost
Guest participant, Theatre Seminar, Alabama Shakespeare Festival Alabama Shakespeare Festival “Theater in the Mind” Lecture on Hamlet, Dothan
Alabama Shakespeare Festival “Theater in the Mind” Lecture on Hamlet, Greenville, Alabama



Master’s Theses Supervised

Phil Festoso, “Misogyny and Morality: John Donne’s Attitudes toward Women and the Tradition of Ironic Allegory” (1993)

Karen Worley Pirnie, “A Manly Soul: Celia as the Voice of Reason in Ben Jonson’s Volpone” (1993)

Julliana Ooi, “John Donne’s Ignatius His Conclave: An Annotated Index, Annotated Bibliography, and Modernized text” (1996)

Carolyn T. Young, “Flannery O’Connor’s “Habit of Art”: Marked Passages in Her Personal Library (1997)

Jonathan Wright, “Alexander Barclay’s Ship of Fools: An Annotated Edition and Modernized Text (1998)

Dianne Russell, “Toward a “Variorum” (or Comprehensively Annotated) Edition of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (2001)

Kimberly Barron, “A Free Order Approach to Literary Theory and to the Critical Analysis of Kate Chopin’s ‘La Belle Zoraïde’” (2003)

Altman, Debbie, “Twenty-first Century Critics on Kate Chopin: Toward an Annotated Edition of The Awakening” (2004)

Kathy Belue Hammond, “A Structural and Thematic Examination of Anne Vaughan Lock’s Meditation of a Penitent Sinner Written in a Maner of a Paraphrase Upon the 51. Psalme of David” (2004)


Professional Activities

“Paradise Lost and Renaissance Historiography.” Presented at conference of the Mississippi Philological Association, January 1984.

“Literature as Equipment for Living: Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Patronage.” Presented at the South Central Renaissance Conference, April 1984.

“Women and the Meaning of The Revenger’s Tragedy.” Presented at the Iowa Shakespeare Symposium, April 1984.

“Shakespeare and the Courtly Love Tradition.” Lecture at NEH sponsored Shakespeare community education program, August 1984.

“Poetry and Power: The Poetics of Patronage in the English Renaissance.” Presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 1984.

“Literature as Equipment for Living: Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Patronage.” Presented at the Carolinas British Studies Symposium, October 1984.

“Shakespeare’s Henry VIII in Its Jacobean Context.” Presented at Mid west Modern Language Association convention, November 1984.

“Renaissance Patronage and Literary Biography.” Presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association convention, November 1984.

“Literary Theory at AUM.” Presented at meeting of the Association of College English Teachers of Alabama, March 1985.

“‘Inviting a Friend to Svpper’: Ben Jonson, Friendship, and the Poetics of Patronage.” Presented at the Citadel Conference on Literature, March 1985.

“Jonson’s Epigram to Pembroke and the Poetry of Power.” Presented at the South Central Renaissance Conference, March 1985.

“Jonson, Satiromastix, and the Poetomachia: A Patronage Perspective.” Presented at the Iowa Shakespeare Symposium, April 1985.

Presiding Secretary, Shakespeare Section, Mid west Modern Language Association, November 1985.


“‘Inviting a Friend to Svpper’: Ben Jonson, Friendship, and the Poetics of Patronage” and “Renaissance Texts, Literary Patronage, and the Broader Patronage System.” Invited lectures, Georgia Southwestern College, February 1986.

“Women and the Meaning of The Revenger’s Tragedy.” Philological Association of the Carolinas, March 1986.

“Defending the Father: Ben Jonson’s ‘Sons’ and the Poetry of Power.” Iowa Shakespeare Symposium, April 1986.

“Strategic Debris: Ben Jonson’s Satires on Inigo Jones in the Context of Renaissance Patronage.” Southeastern Renaissance Conference, April 1986.

“‘Games of Fortune, Plaid at Court’: Poetic Freedom in Jonson’s Epigrams.” Biennial Conference on Renaissance Studies, University of Michigan, Dearborn, October 1986. [shorter version]

Presiding Chairman, Shakespeare Section, Mid west Modern Language Association, November 1986.

“‘Games of Fortune, Plaid at Court’: Poetic Freedom in Jonson’s Epigrams.” The Huntington Library, September 1987. [longer version]

“Approaches to Jonson’s ‘To Penshurst.’” Invited lecture, Elon College, December 1987.

Self funded trip to the Folger Shakespeare Library for research and to attend conference on “The Mental World of the Jacobean Court,” March 1988

Self funded three day research trip, Beinecke Library, Yale University, November 1988

Self funded one week research trip, Folger Shakespeare Library, March 1989

“‘Making Just Approaches’: Ben Jonson’s Epigrams to the Earl of Newcastle.” Southeastern Renaissance Conference, April 1988.

“Teaching Literary Theory to Undergraduates: A Practical Approach.” College English Association, April 1989.

Organized and chaired session on “Theories and Practices: Ways of Reading Renaissance Texts,” Renaissance Discussion Circle, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 1989

Self funded two day research trip, New York Public and Pierpont Morgan Libraries, January 1990

Self funded four day research trip, Boston Public and Harvard Libraries, January 1990

“John Donne, Governor of Charterhouse.” John Donne Society, February 1990

Self funded one week research trip, London, Oxford, and Cambridge, March 1990

Three week research trip, London and Oxford, August and September 1990

Self funded three week research trip, Newberry Library, December 1990

“Jonson, More, and Royal Panegyric.” Conference on Seventeenth Century Literature and Politics, University of Central Florida, April 1991

“Ben Jonson, Thomas Campion, and The Gypsies Metamorphos’d.” Seventh Citadel Conference on Literature, March 1991.

Self funded one week research trip, Folger Library, December 1991

Four week research trip to Beinecke Library, Yale University, June 1992

Two week research trip to London and Oxford, September 1992

“The Wit of Jonson’s Epigrammes.” Biennial Conference on Renaissance Studies, University of Michigan at Dearborn. October 1992.

Chair, Shakespeare panel. Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Atlanta, November 1992

With Kurt Niland (student): “Quintilian and Jonson on the Deaths of Sons.” Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association conference. Flagstaff, AZ. April 1993.

With Kurt Niland (student): “A Memoir of Mary Ann and Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Everything that Rises Must Converge.’” American Culture Association in the South conference. Nashville, TN. October 1993.

With Anne Little (colleague): “The Epistles to Timothy and Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find.’” American Culture Association in the South Conference. Nashville, TN. October 1993.

Organizer and Program Chair, “Flannery O’Connor and Popular Culture.” American Culture Association in the South Conference. Nashville, TN. October 1993. This session involved two faculty members and four students from AUM.


Organizer and Program Chair, “A Silent Woman Speaks: Perspectives on the Newly Published Autobiographical Poem ‘The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth, Widdowe’ (1632).” Florida State University Conference on Film and Literature. Tallahassee, FL. January 1994. Participants included two faculty members and four students from AUM.

Attended annual John Donne Conference, University of Southern Mississippi, February 1994 (self-funded).

Attended “Habit of Art” conference on Flannery O’Connor, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA, April 1994 (self-funded)

Organizer and Program Chair, “A Silent Woman Speaks: Perspectives on the Newly Published Autobiorgaphical Poem ‘The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth, Widdowe’ (1632).” University of Alabama at Birmingham Feminism in the South Conference. Birmingham, AL. April 1994. Participants included two faculty members and two students from AUM.

“Martha Moulsworth’s Poetic ‘Memorandum’: New Evidence for the Study of Early Modern Women.” Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association conference. University of Wyoming. May 1994.

Self-funded ten day research trip, London and Oxford, June 1994.

With Jan Dudle (colleague) presented discussion of Martha Moulsworth at all-day symposium of Alabama Humanities Foundation, August 12, 1994.

Invited to submit paper to Renaissance Discussion Circle, SAMLA, for presentation in fall 1995.

Invited to submit paper to Medieval Institute Conference, Kalamazoo, for presentation in May 1995.

With Randall Cobb, Lisa Hambrick, Neil Probst, Jerry Sailors, Judy Sims, and Kathy Tucker (students). Panel on “Close Reading of Short Fiction.” North Alabama Conference on Language and Literature, Huntsville, September 9, 1994.

With Jan Dudle (colleague). “Introducing Martha Moulsworth.” American Association of University Women (Alabama Humanities Foundation Speakers Bureau), Auburn, October 6, 1994.

“The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth.” Tenth Biennial Conference on Renaissance Literature. University of Michigan, Dearborn. October 7-8, 1994.


“Ben Jonson’s Reading.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Toronto. October 27-29, 1994.

“Introducing Martha Moulsworth.” Southern Union State College (Alabama Humanities Foundation Speakers Bureau), Wadley, November 2, 1994.

“Introducing Martha Moulsworth.” Fort Bowyer Daughters of the American Revolution (Alabama Humanities Foundation Speakers Bureau), Foley, Alabama, November 22, 1994.

“Introducing Martha Moulsworth.” Gulf Shores Adult Activities Center (Alabama Humanities Foundation Speakers Bureau), February 24, 1995.

“Introducing Martha Moulsworth.” Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship (Alabama Humanities Foundation Speakers Bureau), March 12.

With Neil Probst (student). “Introducing Martha Moulsworth.” Samford University English Honor Society (Alabama Humanities Foundation Speakers Bureau), March 16, 1995.

Invited presentations at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, March 20-21, 1995: Discussed collaborative student/faculty research at faculty roundtable; met with students to discuss their research projects; discussed Martha Moulsworth in a “women and literature” class and in a library presentation; gave public lecture “Introducing Martha Moulsworth.”

“Jonsonian Allusions.” Presented at an international conference on “Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance,” University of Leeds (England), 5-7 July, 1995.

“Jonson and the Wisdom of the Law.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, November 4, 1995.

“Poe, O’Connor, and the Mystery of the Misfit.” Flannery O’Connor Symposium. Brigham Young University, November 10, 1995.

“Introducing Martha Moulsworth.” Alabama Humanities Foundation lecture. Birmingham Unitarian Church. August 13, 1995.

“Introducing Martha Moulsworth.” Alabama Humanities Foundation Lecture. St. Martin-in-the-Pines Retirement Community, Birmingham, AL. November 11, 1995.

“‘The Memory of Our Martha’: Appropriating a Woman’s Voice.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies. Pittsburgh. September 21, 1996.

“Katherine Philips: Paradox in Poetry and Politics.” Conference on Literature and the English Civil Wars. University of Michigan, Dearborn. October 12, 1996.


“Ben on Benn.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. St. Louis. November 9, 1996.

“Jonson’s Claudian.” Renaissance Society of America. Vancouver. April 1997.

“Jonson, Simon Starawolski, and Neostoic Historiography.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Atlanta. October 1997.

“Involving Students in Research and Publication.” Pedagogy Workshop, Attending to Early Modern Women Conference. College Park, MD. November 1997.

“Friendship in Hamlet.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. St. Louis. November 1998.

“Defining and Defending Critical Pluralism.” Faultlines in the Field Conference. University of Michigan, Dearborn. October 2000.

“Friendship in King Lear.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Cleveland. November 2000.

Invited participant, round-table discussion of “The Darkening Hero in Western Films.” Liberty Fund. Cloudcroft, NM. October 2000.

Invited participant, round-table discussion of “Liberty and License in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.” Liberty Fund. Portsmouth NH. March 2000.

Research trips to Los Angeles (December), Washington (March), New Haven (March), and London (May) as part of duties as coordinating editor of poetry volumes for Early Women Writers facsimile series, Ashgate Press.

Invited keynote speaker, Wooden O Symposium, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Cedar City, Utah, August 2002.

“Jealousy in Shakespeare’s Othello and in Recent Social Science: The Relevance of Darwin?” Paper presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 24-27 October, 2002. San Antonio. Self-funded trip.

Research trip (self-funded) to Jacksonville State University and Samford University, 14-15 February, 2003.

Presented paper on Anne Vaughan Lock at the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, October 2004.

Chaired session at the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, October 2004.

Invited participant in three-day conference on the work of Richard Weaver in Savannah,
May 2005 (Liberty Fund).


Publications: Books

Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Patronage (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1989). Selected for reprinting in the Literary Reference Center database (EBSCO).

Jonson, Lipsius, and the Politics of Renaissance Stoicism (Wakefield, NH: Longwood, 1992; 2nd edition: Durango, CO: Longwood, 1993). Selected for reprinting in the Literary Reference Center database (EBSCO).

Jonson and the Contexts of His Time (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1994).
Selected for reprinting in the Literary Reference Center database (EBSCO).

With Barbara Wiedemann (colleague), editor of “My Name Was Martha”: A Renaissance Woman’s Autobiographical Poem. (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1993). Selected for reprinting in the Literary Reference Center database (EBSCO).


Habits of Mind: Evidence and Impact of Ben Jonson’s Reading. (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1995). Selected for reprinting in the Literary Reference Center database (EBSCO).

With Anne Little (colleague), editor of “The Muses Females Are”: Martha Moulsworth and Other Women Writers of the English Renaissance. (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1995). Sections selected for reprinting in the Literary Reference Center database (EBSCO).


With Ann Depas-Orange (colleague), editor of “The Birthday of My Self”: Martha Moulsworth, Renaissance Poet. (Princeton, NJ: Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture, 1996). Collection of student essays.

With Anne C. Little and Barbara Wiedemann (colleagues), editor of Short Fiction: A Critical Companion. (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1997). Selected for reprinting in the Literary Reference Center database (EBSCO).

With Richard Harp (colleague), editor of Frank O’Connor: New Perspectives. (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1998).

With Kim Barron, Deborah Hill, Ann O’Clair, and Carolyn Young (students). Ben Jonson’s Major Plays: Summaries of Modern Monographs. (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2000). Selected for reprinting in the Literary Reference Center database (EBSCO).

With Richard Harp (colleague), editor of Brian Friel: New Perspectives. (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2001). Sections selected for reprinting in the Literary Reference Center database (EBSCO).


Editor of Close Readings: Analyses of Short Fiction from Multiple Perspectives by Students of Auburn University Montgomery (Montgomery, AL: Court Street Press, 2001; 2nd edition 2006). Selected for reprinting in the Literary Reference Center database (EBSCO). Also selected for reprinting by www.ebrary.com.

Compiler and editor of Kate Chopin’s Short Fiction: A Critical Companion. (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2001). Selected for reprinting in the Literary Reference Center database (EBSCO).

With Luis R. Gámez and Eve Salisbury (colleague), eds. Reading Othello. Special issue of Comparative Drama 35.1 (2001): 1-141.

Compiler and editor of Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”: An Annotated Critical Edition (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2003). Selected for reprinting in the Literary Reference Center database (EBSCO). Also selected for reprinting by The Ambrose Bierce Project (www.ambrosebierce.org).

Compiler and editor of Frank O’Connor’s “Ghosts”: A Pluralist Approach: A Tribute to Ireland’s Master Story teller in Honor of the Centenary of His Birth and Incorporating Diverse Responses to the Story by Students of Auburn University Montgomery (Montgomery: Court Street Pres, 2003). Selected for reprinting in the Literary Reference Center database (EBSCO).

Primary editor of the following volumes in the Ashgate Press series on The Early Modern Englishwomen: A Facsimile Library of Esssential Works, Series II: An Collins; Alicia D’Anvers (both published in 2003), and Jane Barker (published 2009). One additional volume, on Sarah Fyge Egerton, forthcoming.

Coordinating editor of the following volumes in the Ashgate Press series on The Early Modern Englishwomen: A Facsimile Library of Esssential Works, Series II: “Eliza”; Amey Hayward; Anne Killigrew; Elizabeth Major; Elizabeth Singer [Rowe] (all five volumes published in 2003). One additional volume, on Miscellaneous Poets, published in 2006.

Editor and main contributor to volume on modern literature (1900-1945) of forthcoming Students’ Encyclopedia of Great American Writers (Facts on File Press).

Editor and main contributor to a three-volume (600,000-word) set to be titled Close Readings of Passages from 150 Great American Novels, to be published in 2010 by Infobase Publishing.

Co-editor, with Eric Sterling, of The Continuum Handbook of Seventeenth-Century Literature, to be published in 2010 by Continuum Press.

Editor, Amy Tan: Critical Insights. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, forthcoming 2009. Also to be published as part of EBSCO’s Literary Reference Center database.


Kate Chopin’s The Awakening: An Annotated Critical Edition (in progress).

Kate Chopin’s The Awakening: An Edition with Student Commentary (in progress).

Anne Vaughan Lock’s Meditations of a Penitent Sinner: An Annotated Critical Edition (in progress).

Also finished: one book on Thomas Nashe and Elizabethan erotic literature.


Publications: Articles, essays, notes

“Jonson and His Era: Overviews of Modern Research: Bartholomew Fair.” Ben Jonson Journal 15.2 (2008): 271-89.

With David V. Witkosky. “Involving Students in Scholarly Research: Compiling and Integrating ‘Undiscovered Public Knowledge.’” National Social Science Journal 29.2 (2008): 33-41.

“Class and Complexity in Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘The Gilded Six-Bits.’” A Class of Its Own: Re-Envisioning Labor Fiction. Ed. Laura Hapke and Lisa A. Kirby. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 162-75.

“Teaching Hurston’s ‘The Gilded Six-Bits.’” A Class of Its Own: Re-Envisioning Labor Fiction. Ed. Laura Hapke and Lisa A. Kirby. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 283-89.

“‘Almost Ridiculous’: Dark Humor in T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.’” Invited essay; forthcoming in Bloom’s Themes: Dark Humor, ed. Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2010.

“Aspects of the Sublime in Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan.’” Invited essay; forthcoming in Bloom’s Themes: The Sublime, ed. Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2010.

“Civil Disobedience and Realpolitik in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.” Invited essay; forthcoming in Bloom’s Themes: Civil Disobedience, ed. Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2010.

“Civil Disobedience and the Ending of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Invited essay; forthcoming in Bloom’s Themes: Civil Disobedience, ed. Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2010.

“Clichés, Superficial Story-telling, and the Dark Humor of Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find.’” Invited essay; forthcoming in Bloom’s Themes: Dark Humor, ed. Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2010.

“The Complexities of ‘Old Roger’ Chillingworth: Sin and Redemption in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.” Invited essay; forthcoming in Bloom’s Themes: Sin and Redemption, ed. Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2010.

“Elements of the Longinian Sublime in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.” Invited essay; forthcoming in Bloom’s Themes: The Sublime, ed. Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2010.

“‘Racial Individuality’: Enslavement and Emancipation in the Poetry of Langston Hughes.” Invited essay; forthcoming in Bloom’s Themes: Enslavement and Emancipation, ed. Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2010.

“Sin and Redemption in Melville’s Moby-Dick: The Humaneness of Father Mapple.” Invited essay; forthcoming in Bloom’s Themes: Sin and Redemption, ed. Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2010.

“Social and Religious Taboos in Chaucer’s The Miller’s Tale.” Invited essay; forthcoming in Bloom’s Themes: Taboo, ed. Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2010.

“‘That Evening of Ambiguity and Weariness’: Readerly Exploration in Hawthorne’s ‘My Kinsman, Major Molineux.’” Invited essay; forthcoming in Bloom’s Themes: Exploration and Colonization, ed. Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2010.

“The Trickster Tricked: Huck Comes Out of the Fog in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Invited essay; forthcoming in Bloom’s Themes: The Trickster, ed. Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2010.

“Close Reading as an Approach to Gwendolyn Brooks’ ‘The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock.’” Gwendolyn Brooks: Critical Insights. Ed. Mildred R. Mickle. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, forthcoming. Also scheduled for online publication by EBSCO.

“‘The Only Teacher I Remembered’: Schools, Schooling, and Education in Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.’” Maya Angelou: Critical Insights. Ed. Mildred R. Mickle. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, forthcoming. Also scheduled for online publication by EBSCO.

“In His Time (and Later): Ernest Hemingway’s Critical Reputation.” Ernest Hemingway: Critical Insights. Ed. Eugene Goodheart. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, forthcoming. Also scheduled for online publication by EBSCO.

“On The Joy Luck Club.” In Critical Insights: The Joy Luck Club. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, forthcoming. Also scheduled for online publication by EBSCO.

“The Joy Luck Club: Cultural and Historical Contexts.” In Critical Insights: The Joy Luck Club. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, forthcoming. Also scheduled for online publication by EBSCO.

“The Joy Luck Club After Twenty Years: An Interview with Amy Tan.” In Critical Insights: The Joy Luck Club. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, forthcoming. Also scheduled for online publication by EBSCO.

“Middleton’s Women Beware Women: A History of Reception from 1657 to 1995.” 13,000-word essay invited by Andrew Hiscock, the editor of a volume on that play to be included in a new series of books being published by Continuum Press.

Invited to submit an essay on Ben Jonson’s Volpone by Matthew Steggle, the editor of a volume on that play to be included in a new series of books being published by Continuum Press.

Invited to become a contributing editor of the Donne Variorum project, which is publishing the standard edition of the poetry of John Donne, with comprehensive annotation on the critical heritage. My work will be published in two of the final volumes of the series, dealing with Donne’s love lyrics. I have now completed my part of the project, which consists of 250+ pages of annotated commentary on the criticism of these poems.

“The Politics (and Pairing) of Jonson’s Country House Poems.” Jonson and the Politics of Genre. Ed. A.D. Cousins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming. This essay on two of Ben Jonson’s most influential poems was solicited for inclusion in Cousin’s collection.


Invited to prepare a number of essays for a new series of books titled Bloom’s Themes, to be published by Facts on File (Infobase Publishing) under the general editorship of Harold Bloom, with the individual volumes to be edited by Blake Hobby (UNC-Asheville). Each essay discusses the use of a particular literary theme in a particular classic work of literature. Thus far, I have prepared essays on the works listed below, and I have now been invited to prepare fifteen more essays for the second series. Each essay runs to about 15 pages.

- The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
- “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” by Emily Dickinson
- The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
- Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
- “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” by Flannery O’Connor
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
- “Kubla Khan,” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “The Metamorphosis,” by Franz Kafka
- “To His Coy Mistress,” by Andrew Marvell

Substantial (25-60 page) essays on the following authors for inclusion in volume 3 of the forthcoming Facts on File Students’ Encyclopedia of Great American Writers: Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, Theodore Dreiser, W.E.B. Du Bois, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, H.D., Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Jack London, Claude McKay, Ezra Pound, E.A. Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stevens, Sui Sin Far, Booker T. Washington, Thornton Wilder, William Carlos Williams, and Richard Wright. Anticipated publication date of 2008. Will include contributions by AUM faculty members Eric Sterling and David Witkosky and by AUM graduate student Deborah Solomon.

Substantial (25-60 page) essays on the following authors for volumes 2 and 4 of the forthcoming Facts on File Students’ Encyclopedia of Great American Writers: Kate Chopin, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wilbur. Anticipated publication date of 2010.

Substantial (20-30 page) specially commissioned essays on the following topics for the “Literary Contexts” series of the Literary Reference Center database: William Blake’s “London”; William Blake’s “The Tyger”; Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”; Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”; John Donne’s “The Flea”; T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”; Robert Frost’s “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous); William Wordsworth’s “London, 1802”; and William Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven.” First published online in spring 2006.

“Anne Kemp and a New Allusion to ‘Will’ Shakespeare?” Ben Jonson Journal 14.1 (2007): 88-90.

“Frank O’Connor’s American Reception: The First Decade (1931-41).” Frank O’Connor: Critical Essays. Ed. Hilary Lennon. Dublin: Four Courts, 2007. 71-86.

“Frank O’Connor and the Irish Holocaust.” Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon. Ed. George Cusack and Sarah Goss. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2005. 225-44.

With David V. Witkosky. “Involving Students in Scholarly Research: Compiling and Integrating ‘Undiscovered Public Knowledge.’” National Social Science Journal (forthcoming in 2007).

With David V. Witkosky. “Socrates Updated: Using the Socratic Method to Foster Scholarly Publication by Students.” National Social Science Journal 28.1 (2007): 33-44.

With David V. Witkosky. “Bridging the Gap: Integrating Research with the Teaching of General Education Courses.” National Social Science Journal 27.2 (2007): 35-43.

With David V. Witkosky: “Who Gives a Damn What They Think Anyway: Involving Students in Mentored Research.” National Social Science Journal 23.1 (2004): 21-30.

Article on Ben Jonson in Robert B. Todd, ed., Dictionary of British Classicists (Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004).

Seven articles on various women writers included in Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1500-1700, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York and London: Routledge, 2004).

“Jealousy in Othello and Jealousy in Social Psychology: The Relevance of Darwin?” Journal of the Wooden O Symposium 2 (2002): 36-63.

Introduction to “An Englishman on the Grand Tour, 1604-06: Sir John Wray’s Pilgrim Journal,” by Timothy D. Crowley, Ben Jonson Journal 9 (2002): 193-233.

“Internet Resources for Teaching Early Modern English Women Writers,” English Studies: Working Papers on the Web 4 (2002). Issue on Teaching Renaissance Texts.
http://www.shu.ac.uk/wpw/renaissance [Invited article]

“Lyric Grief in Donne and Jonson,” in Speaking Grief in English Literary Culture: Shakespeare to Milton, ed. Margo Swiss and David A. Kent (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2002), 42-68. [Invited article.]

“What Is Truth?: Defining and Defending Theoretical Pluralism,” in Faultlines and Controversies in the Study of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002), 10-21.

With Jonathan Bauch. “The Plays of Brian Friel: Plot Summaries and Synopses of Recent Criticism.” With contributions by Eric W. Atkins and Donna Y. Smith [students]. A Companion to Brian Friel. Eds. Richard Harp and Robert C. Evans. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2002. 163-251.

“Dancing at Lughnasa: Play, Script, and Film.” A Companion to Brian Friel. Ed. Richard Harp and Robert C. Evans. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2002. 55-89.

“Practicing Critical Pluralism: Brian Friel’s ‘Ebb Tide.’” A Companion to Brian Friel. Ed. Richard Harp and Robert C. Evans. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2002. 255-89.

“Ben Jonson’s Literary Influence.” Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson. Ed. Richard Harp and Stanley Stewart. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

“Flattery in Shakespeare’s Othello: The Relevance of Plutarch and Sir Thomas Elyot.” Comparative Drama 35.1 (2001): 1-41.

“The Riches of the Text: Kate Chopin’s ‘Caline’ and ‘La Belle Zoraïde’ and an Experiment in Pluralist Criticism.” Kate Chopin’s Short Fiction: A Critical Companion. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill, 2001. 339-45.

With Richard Harp and Stanley Stewart (colleagues). “An Interview with Donna Hamilton and Anne Lake Prescott.” Ben Jonson Journal 8 (2001): 349-68.

“‘New’ Poems by Early Modern Women: ‘A Maid under 14,’ Elizabeth With, Elizabeth Collett, and ‘A Lady of Honour.” Ben Jonson Journal 7 (2000): 447-515.

“Martha Moulsworth.” New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

“Jonson’s Critical Heritage.” Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson. Ed. Richard Harp and Stanley Stewart. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 188-201.


“‘New’ Poems by Early Modern Women: ‘A Maid Under 14,’ Elizabeth With, Elizabeth Collett, and ‘A Lady of Honour.’” Ben Jonson Journal 7 (2000): 447-515.

“‘This Art Will Live’: Social and Literary Responses to Ben Jonson’s The New Inn.” Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance England. Ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000. 75-91.

“Drummond’s Artistry in the Flowres of Sion.” Discovering and Recovering the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric. Ed. Eugene Cunnar and Jeffrey Johnson. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2000. 119-39.

“Friendship in Hamlet.” Comparative Drama 33 (1999): 88-124. [Selected for inclusion in the Literature Resource Center database]

“Jonsonian Allusions.” Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance. Ed. Martin Butler. New York; St. Martin’s, 1999. 233-48.

“Friendship in Shakespeare’s Othello.” Ben Jonson Journal 6 (1999): 109-46.

“Paradox in Poetry and Politics: Katharine Philips in the Interregnum.” The English Civil Wars in the Literary Imagination. Ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. 174-85.

“Jonson’s Stoic Politics: Lipsius, the Greeks, and the ‘Speach According to Horace.’” Early Modern Literary Studies 4.1 (May 1998): 44 paragraphs. [Electronic journal.]

“Sejanus: Ethics and Politics in the Reign of James.” Refashioning Ben Jonson: Gender, Politics, and the Jonsonian Canon. Ed. Julie Sanders, Kate Chedgzoy, and Susan Wiseman. London: Macmillan, 1998. 71-92.

“Poe, O’Connor, and the Mystery of the Misfit.” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 25 (1996-97): 1-12.

“Deference and Defiance: The ‘Memorandum’ of Martha Moulsworth.” Representing Women in Renaissance England. Ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1997. 175-186.

Responsible for the following chapters in Short Fiction: A Critical Companion, ed. Robert C. Evans, Anne C. Little, and Barbara Wiedemann (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1997): Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”; Elizabeth Bowen, “The Demon Lover”; Willa Cather, “Paul’s Case”; Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat”; William Faulkner, “Barn Burning”; William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”; Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”; James Joyce, “Araby”; James Joyce, “The Dead”; D.H. Lawrence, “The Rocking-Horse Winner”; Jack London, “To Build a Fire”; Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”; Flannery O’Connor, “Everything That Rises Must Converge”; Frank O’Connor, “Guests of the Nation”; John Steinbeck, “The Chrysanthemums”; Mark Twain, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Caleveras County”; John Updike, “A&P”; and also “Literary Theory and Literary Criticism: What’s the Use?” (xiv-lxxvi).

“Literature as Equipment for Living: Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Patronage.” Originally published in College Language Association Journal 30 (1987): 379-94. [Selected for reprinting in Poetry Criticism, ed. Carol T. Gaffke and Margaret Haerens (Detroit: Gale Research, 1997). 215-19. Selected for inclusion in the Literature Resource Center database.]

“Jonson, Lipsius, and the Latin Classics.” New Perspectives on Ben Jonson. Ed. James Hirsh. London: Associated University Presses, 1997. 55-76.


“Forgotten Fools: Alexander Barclay’s Ship of Fools.” Fools and Folly. Ed. Clifford Davidson. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute, 1996.

“John Donne,” in Encyclopedia of British Humorists, ed. Steven Gale, 2 vols. (New York: Garland, 1996), 1: 319-29.

“Ben Jonson,” in Encylopedia of British Humorists, ed. Steven Gale, 2 vols. (New York: Garland, 1996), 1: 594-608.

Chapter on Jonson’s plays, first published in Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Patronage (1989), selected for reprinting in vol. 33 of Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, ed. Jennifer Allison Brostrom (Detroit: Gale, 1996), 153-64.

“Ben Jonson’s Poetry.” Lengthy essay in Dictionary of Literary Biography volume on Seventeenth Century British Non Dramatic Poets, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit: Gale, 1992), 186 212. [Included in Literature Resource Center database]

“Nashe’s ‘Choise’ and Chaucer’s Pardoner.” ANQ (American Notes and Queries) 9.4 (1996): 21-24.

“Martha Moulsworth.” Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998.

“‘Guests of the Nation’: A Close Reading.” Frank O’Connor: New Perspectives. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill, 1998. 263-96.

“Ambiguity and Balance in Jonson’s ‘New’ Poem on Nashe.” Renaissance Papers (1998) 125-36.

Essays on Ben Jonson (30 pp.) and John Donne (25 pp.) in the Encylopedia of British Humorists, ed. Steven H. Gale (New York: Garland Press, 1996).

“A Silent Woman Speaks: The ‘Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth, Widdowe.’” Yale University Library Gazette 69 (1995): 149-62. Invited article.

“Jonson and the Emblematic Tradition: Ralegh, Brant, the Poems, The Alchemist, and Volpone.” Invited essay for Comparative Drama 29 (1995): 108-32.

“Jonson and the Emblematic Tradition: Ralegh, Brant, the Poems, The Alchemist, and Volpone.” Invited essay for Emblem, Iconography, and Drama. Ed. Clifford Davidson, Luis Gámez, and John H. Stroupe, 108-32. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995.

“More Poems by Martha Moulsworth?” “The Muses Females Are”: Martha Moulsworth and Other Woman Writers of the English Renaissance. Ed. Robert C. Evans and Anne C. Little. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill, 1995. 263-65.

“Moulsworth or Molesworth? A Note on Names, Spellings, and Editorial Principles.”
“The Muses Females Are”: Martha Moulsworth and Other Woman Writers of the English Renaissance. Ed. Robert C. Evans and Anne C. Little. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill, 1995. xxvii-xxx.

“The Life and Times of Martha Moulsworth.” “The Muses Females Are’: Martha Moulsworth and Other Woman Writers of the English Renaissance.” West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill, 1995. 17-73.

“Jonson and the Classics: New Evidence.” Notes and Queries 239 (1994): 63-64.


“Wit and the Power of Jonson’s Epigrammes,” in The Wit of Seventeenth-Century Poetry, ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994): 101-18.

“Jonson, Weston, and the Digbys: Patronage Relations in Some Later Poems.” Renaissance and Reformation 28 (1992): 5 37.

“Contemporary Contexts of Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass.” Comparative Drama 26 (1992): 140 76.

“Jonson’s Copy of Seneca.” Comparative Drama 25 (1991): 257 92.

“Jonson’s Copy of Seneca.” Selected for reprinting in Drama and the Classical Heritage: Comparative and Critical Essays, edited by Clifford Davidson, Rand Johnson, and John H. Stroupe; New York: AMS Press, 1992).

“Ben Jonson’s Chaucer.” English Literary Renaissance 19 (1989): 324 45.

“Sir John Harington and Thomas Sutton: New Letters from Charterhouse.” John Donne Journal: Studies in the Age of Donne 7 (1988): 213 38.

“John Donne: Governor of Charterhouse.” John Donne Journal: Studies in the Age of Donne 8 (1989): 133 50.

“‘Inviting a Friend to Svpper’: Ben Jonson,Patronage, and the Poetry of Power.” In Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Renaissance and Middle Ages, ed. David G. Allen and Robert A. White (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990), 113 25.

“‘Other Mens Provisions’: Ben Jonson’s Parody of Robert White in Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue.” Comparative Drama 24 (1990): 55 77.

“Ben Jonson Reads Daphnis and Chloe.” English Language Notes 27 (1990): 28 32.

“More’s Richard III and Jonson’s Richard Crookback and Sejanus.” Comparative Drama 24 (1990): 97 132.

“Thomas Sutton: Ben Jonson’s Volpone?” Philological Quarterly 68 (1989): 295 314. Selected for reprinting in Ben Jonson’s Plays and Masques: A Norton Critical Edition, ed. Richard Harp (New York: Norton, 2000).

“Richard Brome’s Death.” Notes and Queries n.s. 36 (1989): 351.


“Shakespeare, Sutton, and Theatrical Satire: An Unreported Allusion to Falstaff.” Shakespeare Quarterly 40 (1989): 493 94.

“‘Whom None But Death Could Shake’: An Unreported Shakespeare Epitaph?” Shakespeare Quarterly 39 (1988): 60.

“‘Whom None But Death Could Shake’: An Unreported Shakespeare Epitaph?” previously published in Shakespeare Quarterly; selected to be reprinted in Folger News, Fall 1988

“‘Making Just Approaches’: Ben Jonson’s Epigrams to the Earl of Newcastle.” Renaissance Papers (1988): 63 75.

“‘Games of Fortune, Plaid at Court’: Politics and Poetic Freedom in Jonson’s Epigrams,” in “The Muses Common Weale”: Poetry and Politics in the Seventeenth Century, ed. Claude J. Summers and Ted Larry Pebworth (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1988), 48 61.

“Ben Jonson’s Library and Marginalia: New Evidence from the Folger Collection.” Philological Quarterly 66 (1987): 521 28.

“Frozen Maneuvers: Ben Jonson’s Epigrams to Robert Cecil.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 29 (1987): 115 40.

“Ben Jonson’s Epigrammes I III.” The Explicator 45, no. 2 (1987): 7 10. Selected for reprinting in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, vol. 6, ed. James E. Person, Jr. (Detroit: Gale Research, 1987), 351 52.

“Defending the Father: Ben Jonson’s ‘Sons’ and the Poetry of Power.” Iowa State Journal of Research 61 (1987): 347 58.

“Literature as Equipment for Living: Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Patronage.” CLA Journal 30 (1987): 379 94.

“Women and the Meaning of The Revenger’s Tragedy.” Postscript: Proceedings of the Philological Association of the Carolinas, no. 4 (1987): 65 74.

“‘Strategic Debris’: Ben Jonson’s Satires on Inigo Jones in the Context of Renaissance Patronage.” Renaissance Papers (1986): 69 81.

“Jonson’s Epitaph on the Countess of Shrewsbury, The Explicator 44.3 (1986): 15 17.

“Jonson, Satiromastix, and the Poetomachia: A Patronage Perspective.” Iowa State Journal of Research 60 (1986): 369 83. Included among selected papers from the 1985 Iowa Shakespeare Symposium.


“Ben Jonson,” in Research Guide to Biography and Criticism: Drama, ed. Walton Beacham (Washington, D.C.: Research Publishing, 1986)

“John Donne,” “Ben Jonson,” and “Robert Herrick,” in Research Guide to Biography and Criticism: Literature, ed. Walton Beacham, 2 vols. (Washington: Research Publishing, 1985)

“‘Men that are safe, and sure’: Jonson’s ‘Tribe of Ben’ Epistle in Its Patronage Context.” Renaissance and Reformation n.s. 9 (1985): 235 54.

“Ben Jonson’s ‘Epigram. To Edward Allen.’” The Explicator, 43 (Fall 1984), 19 21.

“Jonson’s ‘Epistle to Sackville,’” The Explicator, 43 (Spring 1985): 7.

“Paradise Lost and Renaissance Historiography,” Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (1984): 69 87.

“Teaching Literary Structure: Episodic Parallels in the Design of Romeo and Juliet,” CEA Critic 46.1 2 (1983 84): 2 8.


Collaborative Projects with Students

With Michael W. Crocker. “Faulkner’s ‘Barn Burning’ and O’Connor’s ‘Everything That Rises Must Converge.’” College Language Association Journal 36 (1993): 371 83. [Selected for inclusion in the Literature Resource Center database.]

With Lynn Bryan. “Ben Jonson and the Monita of Justus Lipsius.” Ben Jonson Journal 1 (1994): 105-23.

With Kurt R. Niland. “A Memoir of Mary Ann and Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Everything that Rises Must Converge.’” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 22 (1993-94): 53-73. [Selected for inclusion in the Literature Resource Center database.]

With Kurt R. Niland. “The Folger Text of Thomas Nashe’s ‘Choise of Valentines.’” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 87.3 (1993): 363-74.

With Joseph T. Roy, Jr. “Fane on Jonson and Shakespeare.” Notes and Queries 41.2 (June 1994): 156-58.

With Kurt R. Niland. “Bolton on Jonson: An Ungathered Allusion.” Notes and Queries 239.4 (1994): 517.

With Neil P. Probst. “Jonson, Seneca, Homer, and Lipsius: Unreported Allusions in The King’s Entertainment at Welbeck.” Notes and Queries 239.4 (December 1994): 519-20.


With Neil P. Probst. “Bishop Duppa and Jonson’s ‘Epick’ Poem.” Notes and Queries 42 (1995): 361 63.

With Neil P. Probst. “Biblical Resonance in Moulsworth’s ‘Memorandum.’“ ‘The Muses Females Are’: Martha Moulsworth and Other Woman Writers of the English Renaissance. Ed. Robert C. Evans and Anne C. Little. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1995. 117-25.

With Kurt R. Niland. “Quintilian and Jonson on the Deaths of Sons.” RE: Arts and Letters 20.1 (1994): 30-46.

With Lynn Bryan. “Jonson’s Response to Lipsius on the Happy Life.” Notes and Queries 43.2 (1996): 181-82.

With Katie Magaw. “Irony and Paradox in Frank O’Connor’s Style.” In Frank O’Connor: New Perspectives (1998), 149-55.

With Katie Magaw. “‘Guests of the Nation’: Story and Play.’” In Frank O’Connor: New Perspectives (1998), 197-202.

With Michael Probst. “‘Fact’ and ‘Fiction’ in Frank O’Connor’s ‘Guests of the Nation’ and An Only Child.” In Frank O’Connor: New Perspectives (1998), 189-95.

With John M. Burdett and Curtis Bowden. “Selected Stories of Frank O’Connor: Synopses and Quick Critiques.” In Frank O’Connor: New Perspectives. 297-352.

With John M. Burdett. “A Frank O’Connor Chronology.” In Frank O’Connor: New Perspectives. 397-446.

With Brandon L. Frith. “Allusions to Jonson and Shakespeare in a Poem by Jane Barker.” Notes and Queries 47 (2000): 104-05.

With Dan R. Davis. “Jonson Alludes to Wyatt’s ‘They Flee From Me.’” Notes and Queries 47 (2000): 104.

With Deborah Cosier Hill (student). “Friel on Friel: Synopses of His Written and Spoken Ideas.” A Companion to Brian Friel. Ed. Richard Harp and Robert C. Evans. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill, 2002. 449-99.

Supervised work by Neil Probst on his article “A Topical Index to Jonson’s Discoveries,” Ben Jonson Journal 3 (1996): 153-78.

Supervised work by John Burdett and Jonathan Wright for their article “Ben Jonson in Recent General Scholarship, 1972-1996,” Ben Jonson Journal 4 (1997): 151-79.

Supervised work by Katie J. Magaw for her article “Modern Books on Ben Jonson: A General Topical Index,” Ben Jonson Journal 5 (1998): 201-47.

Supervised work by Clint Darby for his article “Modern Books on Ben Jonson: A General Topical Index (First Supplement),” Ben Jonson Journal 6 (1999): 261-75.

Supervised work by Deborah Hill for her article “Ben Jonson in General Scholarship, 1900-1972,” Ben Jonson Journal 7 (2000): 517-37.


Supervised work by Jonathan Wright on articles dealing with John Day and George Cavendish published in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia (2001).

Supervised work by Eric W. Atkins for his article “References to Jonson in Scholarship on Shakespeare,” Ben Jonson Journal 12 (2005): 203-16.

Supervised work by Deborah Solomon on an essay on E.E. Cummings to be published in volume 4 of the Student’s Encyclopedia of Great American Writers, which I am editing for Facts on File and which is due to be published in 2008.

Supervised work by Deborah Solomon on an essay on Anne Vaughan Lock published in the inaugural issue of 66: A Journal of Sonnet Studies.

Worked with Deborah Solomon on companion essays dealing with John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, which have now been accepted for publication in a volume (to be published in 2009) edited by Michael Meyer, the noted Steinbeck scholar.

Supervised work by Deborah Solomon on an essay on Virginia Woolf’s A Room of Her Own, to be published in one of the forthcoming volumes of the Bloom’s Themes series.

Supervised work by approximately ten students on contributions published in Short Fiction: A Critical Companion (1997).

Supervised work by approximately twenty-five students on contributions published in Frank O’Connor: New Perspectives (1998).

Supervised work by four students credited on title page of Ben Jonson’s Major Plays: Summaries of Modern Monographs (2000).

Supervised work by 40+ students published in Brian Friel: New Perspectives (2001).

Supervised work by 60+ students published in Kate Chopin’s Short Fiction: A Critical Companion (2001).


Royalties from collaborative projects with students and colleagues donated to AUM Library or AUM English scholarship fund.

Other collaborative projects currently being planned.


Collaborative Articles with Colleagues

With Eric Sterling. “Erasmus’s ‘Beggar Talk’ and Jonson’s Alchemist.” Notes and Queries 43 (1996): 178-81.

Co-author with David Witkosky. “Bridging the Gap: Integrating Research with the Teaching of General Education Courses.” National Social Science Journal 27.2 (2007): 35-43. Suggests ways in which involving students in research can help prevent “burn-out” among faculty.

Co-author with David Witkosky. “Socrates Updated: Using the Socratic Method to Foster Scholarly Publication by Students.” National Social Science Journal 28.1 (2007): 33-44. Describes techniques of involving students in mentored research; highlights the successes of such efforts at AUM.


Publications: Book Reviews or Review Essays

Review of Don E. Wayne, Penshurst: The Semiotics of Place and the Poetics of History. South Atlantic Review 51 (1986): 118 21. [Invited review]

Review of Leah S. Marcus, The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell and the Defense of Old Holiday Pastimes. Sixteenth Century Journal 19 (1988): 300 01.

Review of Rosalind Miles, Ben Jonson: His Life and Art. Huntington Library Quarterly 51 (1988): 329 34. [Invited review]


Review of Robert N. Watson, Jonson’s Parodic Strategy: Literary Imperialism in the Comedies. Sixteenth Century Journal 19 (1988): 287 88.

Review of Steven Zwicker and Kevin Sharpe, eds. The Politics of Discourse. Sixteenth Century Journal 20 (1989): 151 52.

Review of R. Malcolm Smuts, Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in Early Stuart England. Sixteenth Century Journal 20 (1989): 357 58.

Review of David Riggs, Ben Jonson: A Life. Sixteenth Century Journal 21 (1990): 517 18.

Review of Thomas P. Roche, Jr., Petrarch and the English Sonnet Sequences. Sixteenth Century Journal 21 (1990): 290 91.

Review of George E. Rowe, Distinguishing Jonson. Sixteenth Century Journal 22 (1991): 367 68.

Review of Albert H. Tricomi, Anticourt Drama in England: 1603 1642 (forthcoming: Quarterly Journal of Ideology)

Review of P.J. Klemp, The Essential Milton: An Annotated Bibliography of Major Modern Studies. Sixteenth Century Journal 22 (1991): 154.

Review of Michael Brennan, Literary Patronage in the English Renaissance: The Pembroke Family. Southern Humanities Review 24 (1990): 277 79. [Invited review]

Review of Jerzy Limon, The Masque of Stuart Culture. Sixteenth Century Journal 22 (1991): 900 01.

Review of Robert Wiltenburg, Ben Jonson and Self Love. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 91 (1992): 237 40. [Invited review]

Review of Janet Clare, “Art Made Tongue-Tied by Authority” and Richard Dutton, Mastering the Revels in Comparative Drama 26 (1992): 385-87. [Invited review]

Review of David McPherson, Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Myth of Venice. Comparative Drama 26 (1992): 92 94. [Invited review]

Review of Jennifer Brady and W.H. Herendeen, eds., Ben Jonson’s 1616 Folio. Sixteenth Century Journal 23 (1992): 376 77.

Review of Katherine Duncan-Jones, Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet. Albion 24.3 (1992): 472-73. [Invited review]


Review of Kate Gartner Frost, Holy Delight (a study of John Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions). Sixteenth Century Journal 23 (1992): 185 86.

Review of Michael C. Schoenfeldt, Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship. Sixteenth Century Journal 23 (1992): 813 14.

Review of R. Howard Bloch, Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love. Sixteenth Century Journal 24 (1993): 135.

Review of Steven W. May, The Elizabethan Courtier Poets: The Poems and Their Contexts. Sixteenth Century Journal 24 (1993): 188-89.

Review of Mario A. Di Cesare, ed., Reconsidering the Renaissance. Sixteenth Century Journal 24 (1993): 958.

Review of Linda Levy Peck, ed., The Mental World of the Jacobean Court. Southern Humanities Review 28 (1994): 299-302.

Review of Michael McCanles, Jonsonian Discriminations. (forthcoming: Southern Humanities Review)

Review Julia Haig Gaisser, Catullus and His Renaissance Readers. Sixteenth Century Journal 25 (1994): 410-11.

Review of Bruce E. Brandt, Christopher Marlowe in the Eighties. Comparative Drama 27 (1993): 263-64.

Review of A.B. Chambers, Transfigured Rites in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry. Sixteenth Century Journal 24 (1993): 719.

Review of Clare Brant and Dianne Purkiss, eds., Women, Texts and Histories: 1575 1760. Sixteenth Century Journal 25 (1994): 210-11.

Review of Richard Rambuss, Spenser’s Secret Career. (forthcoming: Albion) [Review invited]

Review of Harold Love, Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England. Sixteenth Century Journal 25 (1994): 435-36.

Review of Jonathan Bate, Shakespeare and Ovid. Sixteenth Century Journal 25 (1994): 675.


Review of Naseeb Shaheen, Biblical References in Shakespeare’s Comedies. Sixteenth Century Journal 25 (1994): 707.

Review of Francis Barker, et al. eds. Uses of History: Marxism, Postmodernism, and the Renaissance. Literature and History 3.2 (1994): 123-25. [Invited review]

Review of Roy Porter and Mikulus Teich, eds., The Renaissance in National Context. Literature and History 3.2 (1994): 122-23. [Invited review]

Review of David Howard, ed., Art and Patronage in the Caroline Courts. Sixteenth Century Journal 25.4 (1994): 989-90.

Review of Roy Battenhouse, ed., Shakespeare’s Christian Dimension: An Anthology of Commentary. Sixteenth Century Journal 25.4 (1994): 998-99.

Review of Anthony Raspa, ed., Pseudo-Martyr (by John Donne). Sixteenth Century Journal 25 (1994): 1013.

Review of Harold Love, Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England. Sixteenth Century Journal 25 (1994): 435.

Review of Arthur Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric. Sixteenth Century Journal 26 (1995): 966.

Review of Donald V. Stump, ed., Sir Philip Sidney: An Annotated Bibliography 1554-1984. Sixteenth Century Journal 26 (1995): 965.

Review of J.R. Mulryne and Margaret Shewring, eds., Theatre and Government Under the Early Stuarts. Comparative Drama 29 (1995-96): 526-28.

Review of Peter M. Daly, et al., The English Emblem Tradition (Volume 2). Sixteenth Century Journal 26 (1995): 214.

Review of Betty S. Travitsky and Adele F. Seeff, eds., Attending to Women in Early Modern England. Sixteenth Century Journal 26 (1995): 451.

Review of S.K. Heninger, The Subtext of Form in the English Renaissance. Sixteenth Century Journal 26 (1995): 452.

Review of A.W. Johnson, Ben Jonson: Poetry and Architecture for Early Modern Literary Studies 1.2 (August 1995). Electronic journal.

Review of Manfred Hoffmann, Rhetoric and Theology: The Hermeneutic of Erasmus. Ben Jonson Journal 2 (1995): 277-81.

Review of Peggy Munoz Simonds, Iconographic Research in English Renaissance Literature. Sixteenth Century Journal 27 (1996): 656.


Review of Gordon Williams, ed., A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature. Sixteenth Century Journal 27 (1996): 491.

Review of William W.E. Slights, Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy. Sixteenth Century Journal 27 (1996): 632.

Review of R.J. Frontain and F. Malpezzi, eds., John Donne’s Religious Imagination. Sixteenth Century Journal 27 (1996): 609.

Review of William Engel, Mapping Mortality: The Persistence of Memory and Melancholy in Early Modern England. Sixteenth Century Journal 27 (1996): 633.

Review of Christopher Martin, Policy in Love: Lyric and Public in Ovid, Petrarch, and Shakespeare. Sixteenth Century Journal 27 (1996): 530.

Review of Kevin Sharpe and Peter Lake, eds., Culture and Politics in Early Stuart England. Southern Humanities Review 30 (1996): 293-95.

Review of Mario DiCesare, ed., George Herbert: The Temple: A Diplomatic Edition of the Bodleian Manuscript. Sixteenth Century Journal 28 (1997): 1403-04.

Review of Dale B.J. Randall, Winter Fruit: English Drama, 1642-1660. Sixteenth Century Journal 28 (1997): 1053.

Review of Dustin Griffin, Literary Patronage in England, 1650-1800. Albion 29.4 (1997): 675-77. [Invited review]

Review of Richard Dutton, Ben Jonson: Authority, Criticism. Ben Jonson Journal 4 (1997): 209-12.

Review of Jonathan F.S. Post, ed., George Herbert in the Nineties. Sixteenth Century Journal 28 (1997): 947.

Review of W. David Kay, Ben Jonson: A Literary Life. Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997): 888-889. [Invited review]

Review of Calvin Huckaby, John Milton: An Annotated Bibliography: 1968-1988. Renaissance Quarterly 51 (1998): 702-04. [Invited review]

Review of Deborah Shuger, Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance. Early Modern Literary Studies 5.3 (2000): 16.1-6. [Electronic journal]

Review of Anita Pacheco, ed., Early Modern Women Writers: 1600-1720. Early Modern Literary Studies 6.1 (2000): 16.1-5. [Electronic journal.]


Review of Jean Klene, ed., The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book. Sixteenth Century Journal 29 (1998): 873-74.

Review of H. David Brumble, Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ben Jonson Journal 5 (1998): 345-46.

Review of Ian Green, The Christian’s ABC: Catechisms and Catechizing in England c. 1530-1740. Ben Jonson Journal 5 (1998): 346.

Review of Bruce Thomas Boehrer, The Fury of Men’s Gullets: Ben Jonson and the Digestive Canal. Ben Jonson Journal 5 (1998): 346-47.

Review of Howard Erskine-Hill, Poetry and the Realm of Politics. Renaissance Forum 3.1 (1998). [Electronic Journal.]

Review of Christopher Highley, Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland. Albion 31.1 (1999): 81-82. [Invited review]

Review of Marc Laureys, ed., The World of Justus Lipsius. Sixteenth Century Journal 30 (1999): 1049-50.

Review of Gale Carrithers and James D. Hardy, Age of Iron: Renaissance Tropologies of Love and Power. Sixteenth Century Journal 30 (1999): 1126-1127.

Review of Judy Kronenfeld, King Lear and the Naked Truth. Ben Jonson Journal 6 (1999): 352-53.

Review of Adriana McCrea, Constant Minds: Political Virtue and the Lipsian Paradigm in England. Ben Jonson Journal 6 (1999): 353-55.

Review of Matthew Steggle, Wars of the Theatres. Ben Jonson Journal 6 (1999): 355-56.

Review of David. J. Baker Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain. Albion 31.1 (2000). [Invited review]

Review of Susan D. Amussen, et al., Attending to Early Modern Women. Sixteenth Century Journal 31 (2000): 619.

Review of Jeffrey Powers-Beck, Writing the Flesh: The Herbert Family Dialogue. Sixteenth Century Journal 31 (2000): 525.

Review of Richard Cave, Elizabeth Schafer, and Biran Wooland, eds., Ben Jonson and Theatre: Performance, Practice, and Theory. Renaissance and Reformation n.s. 24.2 (2000): 101-02. [Invited review]

Review of T.F. Wharton, ed., The Drama of John Marston: Critical Re-Visions. Albion 34.2 (2002): 303-05. [Invited review]

Review of Natasha Korda, Shakespeare’s Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England. CHOICE, 1 February 2003.

Review of Millicent Bell, Shakespeare’s Tragic Skepticism. CHOICE, 9 September 2003. [Invited review]


Review of Anne Locke, A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner: Anne Locke’s Sonnet Sequence with Locke’s Epistle and The Collected Works of Anne Vaughan Lock. Early Modern Literary Studies 6.2 (2000): 8: 1-5. [electronic journal]

Review of Timothy Raylor, The Essex House Masque of 1621. Ben Jonson Journal 7 (2000).

Review of Michael Rudick, ed., The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh in The Ben Jonson Journal 7 (2000): 648-49.

Review of Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, Ben Jonson Revised in International Journal of the Classical Tradition 9.1 (2002): 158-60. [Invited review]

Review of Brett Cooke, et al., eds., Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts in Ben Jonson Journal 7 (2000).

Review of Helen Ostovich, et al., eds., Other Voices, Other Views: Expanding the Canon in English Renaissance Studies. Sixteenth Century Journal 32.1 (2001): 267-68.

Review of L.E. Semler, ed., Eliza’s Babes, or The Virgin’s Offering: A Critical Edition. Ben Jonson Journal 8 (2001): 438-40.

Review of Edward Pechter, Othello and Interpretive Traditions. Comparative Drama 35.1 (2001): 139-41.

Review of Reed Way Dasenbrock, Truth and Consequences: Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics. Ben Jonson Journal 8 (2001): 398-409.

Review of Mark David Rasmussen, ed., Renaissance Literature and Its Formal Engagements. Ben Jonson Journal 9 (2002): 294-95.

Review of James P. Bednarz, Shakespeare and the Poets’ War. Ben Jonson Journal 9 (2002): 291-93.

Review of Eugene D. Hill and William Kerrigan, eds., “The Wit to Know”: Essays on English Renaissance Literature for Edward Taylor. Ben Jonson Journal 9 (2002): 295-301.

Review of Lukas Erne, Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist. Ben Jonson Journal 10 (2003): 275-78.
Review of Paul J. Voss, Elizabethan News Pamphlets: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, and the Birth of Journalism. Ben Jonson Journal 9 (2002): 265-68.
Review of Richard Levin, Looking for an Argument: Critical Encounters with the New Approaches to Shakespeare and His Contemporaries and of Victoria Burke and Elizabeth Clarke, eds., The Centuries of Julia Palmer. Ben Jonson Journal 10 (2003): 309-18.
Review of Samuel Crowl, Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era. Comparative Drama, 37.3-4 (2003-04): 417-19.

Review of James Hirsh, Shakespeare and the History of Soliloquies. Comparative Drama 38.1 (2004): 123-27.

Review of Donald Beecher, ed., Characters, Together with Poems, News, Edicts, and Paradoxes, Based on the Eleventh Edition of A Wife Now the Widow of Sir Thomas Overbury. Sixteenth Century Journal 36.1 (2005): 216-17.

Review of Reid Barbour, John Selden: Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth Century England. Seventeenth Century News 62.3-4 (2004): 203-05. [Invited review]

Review of Mary Papazian, ed., John Donne and the Protestant Reformation: New Perspectives. Ben Jonson Journal 11 (2004): 300-05.


Review of Beatrice Batson, ed., Shakespeare’s Second Historical Tetralogy: Some Christian Features. Ben Jonson Journal 11 (2004).

Review of Tony Hilfer, The New Hegemony in Literary Studies: Contradictions in Theory. Ben Jonson Journal 11 (2004).

Review of Helen Ostovich, ed., Every Man Out of His Humour. Ben Jonson Journal 11 (2004). [This and the preceding two reviews appeared on pages 348-58.]
Review of Kenneth S. Rothwell, A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television (2nd ed.) and of Sarah Hatchuel. Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen. Comparative Drama 38.4 (2004/05): 455-59.
Review of Carol Thomas Neely, Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture and of Virginia Mason Vaughan, Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800. Comparative Drama 39.2 (2005): 251-56.
Review of Earl Miner, ed., Paradise Lost, 1668-1968: Three Centuries of Commentary. Ben Jonson Journal 12 (2005): 284-87.
Review of Jeanne Shami, John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit. Sixteenth Century Journal 36.2 (2005): 488-89.
Review of John R. Roberts, John Donne: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism; Matthew Steggle, Richard Brome: Place and Politics on the Caroline Stage; and of David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller, eds., The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. Ben Jonson Journal 12 (2005): 293-301.
Review of Peter Erickson and Maurice Hunt, eds. Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Othello. Comparative Drama 40.1 (2006): 138-41.

Review of Achsah Guibbory, ed., The Cambridge Companion to John Donne. Ben Jonson Journal 13 (2006): 196-204.

Review of William J. Kennedy, The Site of Petrarchism: Early Modern National Sentiment in Italy, France, and England. Sixteenth Century Journal 37.1 (2006): 218-19.

Review of The Holy Sonnets. Volume 7, Part I of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne by John Donne and ed. by Gary A. Stringer, Paul A. Parrish et al. Renaissance Quarterly 59.4 (2006): 1322-23. [Invited review.]

Review of Daphne Patai and Wilfrido Corral, eds., Theory’s Empire: An Anthology of Dissent. Ben Jonson Journal 13 (2006): 243-46.

Review of Joseph Carroll, Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature; Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson, eds., The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative; and David P. Barash and Nanelle R. Barash, Madame Bovary’s Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature. Ben Jonson Journal 13 (2006): 246-51.

Review of David Bergeron, Textual Patronage in English Drama, 1570-1640 and of Alison V. Scott, Selfish Gifts: The Politics of Exchange and English Courtly Literature, 1580-1628. Ben Jonson Journal 14.1 (2007): 146-50.

Review of Terry Eagleton, How to Read a Poem; Jonathan Culler, The Literary in Theory; and Stephen Cohen (ed.), Shakespeare and Historical Formalism in Ben Jonson Journal 15.1 (2008): 151-56. Review of books of literary criticism in which the literary aspects of literature are actually taken seriously for a change.

Review of Tom McFaul, Male Friendship in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries in Ben Jonson Journal 15.1 (2008): 143-46. Review of a book on a topic – friendship – that is central to some of my own books and articles.

Review of Steve Mentz, Romance for Sale in Early Modern England, in Seventeenth-Century News 65.3-4 (2007): 172-74. Review of a book that considers the romance genre in the English Renaissance.