Benedict Robinson
Associate Professor.
Ph.D. Columbia University,
2001; Renaissance poetry and drama; Shakespeare; Milton;
literary theory. Undergraduate Program Director.
Humanities 2076/2093 MW 2:30 / M 7-8 pm
Humanities 2076/2093 MW 2:30 / M 7-8 pm
Courses:
Fall 2009
- Shakespeare Major Works (EGL 243)
- Milton (EGL 342)
Selected Publications
Books:
- Islam and Early Modern English Literature: The Politics of Romance from Spenser to Milton (Palgrave, 2007).
- Ed., with Zachary Lesser, University of Pennsylvania, Textual Conversations in the Renaissance: Ethics, Authors, Technologies (Ashgate, 2006).
- Ed., Titus Andronicus (Barnes and Noble, 2009)
- Ed., Henry V (Barnes and Noble, 2008).
Articles:
- “The ‘Turks,’ Caroline Politics, and Philip Massinger’s The Renegado,” in Localizing Caroline Drama, ed. Alan Farmer and Adam Zucker (Palgrave, 2006), pp. 213-37.
- "The 'Secret Faith' of Spenser's Saracens," Spenser Studies 17 (2003): 37-73.
- "Thomas Heywood and the Cultural Politics of Play Collections." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (Spring 2002).
- "John Foxe and the Anglo-Saxons." John Foxe and His World, ed. Christopher Highley and John N. King (Ashgate Press, 2002).
- "'Darke speech': Matthew Parker and the Reforming of History." Sixteenth Century Journal 29:4 (Winter 1998): 1061-83.
- “Thomas Heywood,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. David Kastan.
- “Returning to Egypt: The ‘Jew,’ the ‘Turk,’ and the English Republic,” in Milton and the Jews, ed. Douglas A. Brooks ( Cambridge University Press, under contract).
- “‘Green Seraglios’: Tulips, Turbans, and the Global Market in Andrew Marvell’s ‘The Mower Against Gardens.’” Forthcoming in Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies.


