
Peter G. Phialas Distinguished Professor
1992, Ph.D. English, The Johns Hopkins University
1983, M.A. English, The Johns Hopkins University
1979, B.A. English, Calvin College
Bio
Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain (Stanford University Press, 1997) and On Demand: Writing for the Market in Early Modern England (Stanford University Press, 2010). With Willy Maley, he is the editor of British Identities and English Renaissance Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). With Maley and Patricia Palmer, he is collaborating on a project in the digital humanities, a web application devoted to the literature and culture of early modern Ireland. With Palmer, he is editing an online voluume on politics and early modern criticism.
Publications:
- Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain (Stanford University Press, 1997)
- British Identities and English Renaissance Literature, ed. David J. Baker and Willy Maley (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
- On Demand: Writing for the Market in Early Modern England (Stanford University Press, 2010)
- “’Not Professed Therein’: Spenserian Religion in Ireland,” Region, Religion and Renaissance Literature, ed. David Coleman (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013)
- “Britain Redux,” Spenser Studies 29 (2014): 21-36.
- “The Market,” A Handbook of English Renaissance Studies (Critical Theory Handbooks), ed. John Lee (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018).
Awards
- 2016 Digital Innovation Lab/Institute for the Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Courses Taught:
- ENGL 225 Shakespeare
- ENGL 325 Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
- ENGL 327 Renaissance Literature and its Intellectual Contexts