English Department Faculty

Benedict Robinson

Courses:

• EGL 204: Literary Analysis and Argumentation
  
• EGL 346: Shakespeare II
  

Selected Publications

• 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., Henry V (Barnes and Noble, 2008). 

• "Harry and Amurath," Shakespeare Quarterly 60.4 (2009): 399-424
• "‘Green Seraglios’: Tulips, Turbans, and the Global Market in Andrew Marvell’s ‘The Mower Against Gardens,’" Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 9.1 (2009): 93-122
• "Returning to Egypt: The ‘Jew,’ the ‘Turk,’ and the English Republic," in Milton and the Jews, ed. Douglas A. Brooks (Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 178-199 
• "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 (Fall 2002): 37-73 
• "Thomas Heywood and the Cultural Politics of Play Collections," Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 42.2 (Spring 2002): 361-80 
• "John Foxe and the Anglo-Saxons," in John Foxe and His World, ed. Christopher Highley and John N. King (Ashgate, 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 
• "Neither Acts Nor Monuments." Forthcoming in English Literary Renaissance (2011)

• Feeling Words: An Early Modern Philology of the Affections
• Ed., John Webster, The White Devil. Under contract with Arden Early Modern Drama.
• "Early Modern Orientalisms." Under contract for the Blackwell Companion to English Literature.
• "Reading the "Arabian’s Gospel": Islam and Radical Religion in the Seventeenth Century"