EDUCATION:
B.S., B.A. (Physics and English) Colorado State University; M.A. (English) University of Denver; Ph.D. (English) University of Virginia

COURSES TAUGHT:
Milton, Shakespeare's Major Plays

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: Book: Leaving Well Is the Best Revenge: Shakespearean Scenes of Departure (in progress) Articles: " Surviving The Tempest," Raritan   (Winter 2006), "Edmund Waller in St. James Park," Restoration (under review), "Embracing the Air:  An Essay on King Lear"  (under review), "'Their senses I'll restore': Montaigne and The Tempest Reconsidered," in Patrick Murphy, ed. The Tempest: Critical Essays,  (Routledge,  2001), "Solitude and Sensibility in Cowley's Essays," Restoration  (Spring 2001), "Inviting Resolutions: The Resolves of Owen Felltham," Prose Studies (August, 1997), Twelve bibliographic entries for the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 3rd ed. (forthcoming)   Book Reviews: Milton's Warring Angels: A Study of Critical Engagements by William Kolbrener (Cambridge University Press, 1997) in 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics and Inquires in the Early Modern Era (Spring 2001) Numerous short reviews for the Virginia Quarterly

TEACHING INTERESTS:
Milton, Shakespeare, Seventeenth-Century Literature and Culture, History of Literary Criticism, Genre Theory, Montaigne.

PRIMARY FIELDS OF INTEREST:
Renaissance, 17th Century Literature, Genre Theory, The Essay, History of Literary Criticism

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