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Courses taught 2009/2010:
ENG103 Fiction
ENG257 The British Novel
ENG315 History of Literary Criticism
ENG344 18th-century English Literature
ENG/THR361 Shakespeare
ENG475 Selected Literature: Milton
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EDUCATION
D.Phil. (1992), University of Oxford
Dissertation: "The Poetics of Subversion and Conservatism: Satire ca. 1640-1649."
B.A. Hons (1987), English, McMaster University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Early-modern non-dramatic English literature (esp. Milton, Marvell)
- Shakespeare and theory
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
“Ethical Hermeneutics in the Theater: Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice” in Hermeneutics at the Crossroads: Interpretation in Christian Perspective, eds. Kevin Vanhoozer, James K.A. Smith, and Bruce Ellis Benson (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, forthcoming).
“Calvin and Hobbes: Providence and Politics in Robinson Crusoe” in Sublimer Aspects: Literature, Aesthetics, and Theology 1715-1885, ed. Natasha Duquette (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007)
“Ethical Hermeneutics in the Theater: Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice” in Hermeneutics at the Crossroads: Interpretation in Christian Perspective, eds. Kevin Vanhoozer, James K.A. Smith, and Bruce Ellis Benson (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006)
‘My Stammering Tongue and Unpolished Pen’: Henry Alline’s Language and Literature” in Revivals, Baptists, & George Rawlyk, ed. Daniel C. Goodwin (Wolfville, NS: Acadia, 2000).