Renaissance Tropologies: The Cultural Imagination of Early Modern England

About the Contributors

367 About the Contributors Hugh Adlington is lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham. He has published journal articles and book chapters on the formal, religious, and political aspects of Donne’s poetry and prose, and has research interests in early modern literature more broadly, including John Milton, Thomas Browne,literatureandlaw,bookcollection,andtextualediting. Selected works-in-progress include a monograph on the significance of legal language and thought in the work of John Donne and his contemporaries. He is also co-editor of The Oxford Companion to the Early Modern Sermon, and editor of The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, volume 2. Ilona Bell is professor of English at Williams College. She is the author of Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship and editor of John Donne: Selected Poems. She is currently editing “Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: The Handwritten Text.” She has written numerous essays on early modern writers, especially Elizabeth Tudor, John Donne, William Shakespeare, and George Herbert. Alexandra Mills Block is an assistant professor of English at Bucknell University. She has published essays in Graven Images and Spenser Studies. 368 About the Contributors Eric C. Brown is associate professor of English at the University of Maine at Farmington. In 2007–08 he served as Fulbright Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway. His recent publications include essays on Milton and Shakespeare, including Shakespeare on film, and he is editor of the book Insect Poetics (2006). He is currently working on adaptations of Paradise Lost. A. E. B. Coldiron is associate professor of English at Florida State University in the History of Text Technologies Program. She is the author of Canon Period and the Poetry of Charles of Orleans: Found in Translation (2000), English Printing, Verse Translation, and the Bottle of the Sexes: Between the Sheets (forthcoming), and articles on medieval and Renaissance literature . She has been a Kluge Fellow in the Library of Congress and has held Folger, ATLAS, and NEH fellowships. James D. Hardy Jr. was born in New York and received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1961. He has taught European history and literature at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, since 1965. He has authored or co-authored seven books on European and English Renaissance history, literature, and religion, including Milton and the Hermeneutic Journey, and Age of Iron, with Gale H. Carrithers Jr. He has also published two books on baseball. Gregory Kneidel is associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut. He is author of Rethinking the Turn to Religion in Early Modern English Literature (2008) and is a contributor to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook to John Donne and Oxford Handbook to the Early Modern Sermon. Albert C. Labriola, acting dean of the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts at Duquesne University, is past president of the John Donne Society of America. His publications on Donne have appeared in the John Donne Journal, About the Contributors 369 Huntington Library Quarterly, Modern Philology, Studies in Philology, and multiauthor collections. He is the volume commentary editor for the “Songs and Sonets” forthcoming in The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne. Susannah Brietz Monta is John Cardinal O’Hara, C.S.C., Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England (2005), which won the 2005 Book of the Year award from the MLA-affiliated Conference on Christianity and Literature. She has published essays on martyrs , early modern women, Spenser, Shakespeare, the history play, and pedagogy. Her co-edited volume, Teaching Early Modern Prose, is forthcoming from the Modern Language Association. Kate Narveson is associate professor of English at Luther College, where she teaches medieval and early modern literature . She has published on John Donne, George Herbert, Lucy Hutchinson, and topics in early Stuart religious writing and the history of the book. She is finishing a book on the rise of a devotional writing culture among the laity as a consequence of the spread of Scripture literacy in England, 1580–1640. Stephen Pender is associate professor of English at the University of Windsor, where he is also director of the Humanities Research Group and holds a research leadership chair in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He has published on early modern exhibition, the history of rhetoric, and the history of medicine in...