
Field-Of-Study: English Literature







John Watkins
John Watkins is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, where he holds affiliate appointments in History, Medieval Studies, and Italian Studies. He co-chairs the Institute for Global Studies’ Research Collaborative on the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle East. After graduating from Indiana University, Watkins completed an M.Phil. in Renaissance

Carla Mazzio
Carla Mazzio, a scholar of early modern literature and culture, earned her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She teaches in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and has special research interests in literature in relationship with the history of science (particularly medicine and mathematics), the history


Julia Reinhard Lupton
Consistent themes in my work include the continued urgency, resilience, and reparative virtues of Shakespearean drama; the capacity of the humanities to provide occasions for creative citizenship and embodied thought; the household as a theater of sociability; and religion as problem and promise in liberalism. I am committed to a broadly humanistic pedagogy that addresses

Paul Stevens
Paul Stevens is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Toronto. The focus of his research is seventeenth-century English literature, most important the life and works of John Milton. His most recent publications include Early Modern Nationalism and Milton’s England, co-edited with David Loewenstein, which won the

Jonathan Lamb
Jonathan Lamb started teaching English literature at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. In 1995 he moved to Princeton, and in 2002 took up the Andrew W. Mellon chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt. His most recent book is The Things Things Say, a study of the strange energy generated by things when they are

Andrea K. Henderson
Andrea Henderson is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. She received her B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1986, and her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. From 1991 to 1994 she was a Fellow at the University of Michigan Society of Fellows. Professor Henderson’s scholarly

Denise Gigante
Denise Gigante, Professor of English at Stanford University, is the author of The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George, a biography of the English poet and his pioneer brother published with Harvard University Press in 2011. The book was a New York Times Notable Book for 2011 and an Editor’s Choice in The

John M. G. Plotz
John Plotz is Professor of English at Brandeis University, specializing in Victorian literature and the novel. He received his B.A. (1989; History and Literature) and Ph.D. (1997; English) from Harvard University. His brief stay as a student of early modern literature at Cambridge University was cut short in March 1990 when he went to Czechoslovakia


Gordon Teskey
Gordon Teskey is Professor of English at Harvard University, specializing in Renaissance poetry. He is the author of Allegory and Violence (Cornell UP, 1996) and Delirious Milton: The Fate of the Poet in Modernity (Harvard UP, 2006), for which he won the Milton Society of America’s James Holly Hanford Prize. He also edited Unfolded Tales:



Richard Halpern
Richard Halpern is Sir William Osler Professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University. After his receiving his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1983, he taught at Yale, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of California at Berkeley before arriving at Johns Hopkins in 2002. His areas of interest include Shakespeare, English