Keynote Speaker:

Richard Strier
The Frank L. Sulzberger Professor, Dept. of English, University of Chicago

Selected Publications

• Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert's Poetry (U. of Chicago Press, 1983); paperback, 1986.

• Resistant Structures: Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts (U. of California Press, 1995) [The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, 34]); paperback, 1997.

• (ed. with Derek Hirst) Writing and Political Engagement in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge University Press, 1999)

• (ed. with Donna B. Hamilton) Religion, Literature and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540-1688 (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

• "Against the Rule of Reason: Praise of Passion from Petrarch to Luther to Shakespeare to Herbert," in Reading the Early Modern Passions, ed. Mary Floyd-Wilson, Karen Rowe, & Gail Kern Paster (forthcoming from U. of Penn. Press, 2004).

• "Shakespeare and the Skeptics" Religion and Literature 32 (2000), 171-196 (special issue on Heterodoxy in the English Renaissance)

• "Milton's Fetters, or, Why Eden is Better than Heaven" in John Milton: the Author in His Works, ed. Michael Lieb and Albert Labriola, Milton Studies 38 (2000), pp. 169-197.

• "John Donne Awry and Squint: The 'Holy Sonnets,' 1608-10," Modern Philology 86 (May, 1989), 357-384. [Featured in Margaret Edson's, Wit, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1999]