Office: Keezell 222
Phone: 540-568-3755
Email: rankinmc@jmu.edu
Office hours: Spring 2008 Wed 9-2; and by appointment
Title: Assistant Professor of English, Director of Undergraduate Internships (Website)
Courses:
Spring 2008
English 316. Renaissance Drama
GENG 235 Survey of English Lit. I.
ENG 419 History of the Language
Specialties: Renaissance literature and culture, with primary emphasis on Shakespeare, the English Reformation, Tudor non-dramatic literature, and the History of the Book.
Education: Ph.D., English, The Ohio State University, with Certificate in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. M.A., English, Ohio University. B.S.Ed., English Education, Ohio University.
Publications:
Book:
Religious Orthodoxy and Dissent in Early Modern England. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State
University Libraries, 2005.
Books-in-progress:
Henry VIII and His Afterlife: Literature, Politics, and Art. Edited with Christopher Highley and John N. King. Forthcoming 2009 from Cambridge University Press.
Henry VIII and the Politics of Early Modern Literature (in progress)
Articles and Chapters:
“Print, Patronage, and the Reception of Continental Reform: 1521-1603.” With John N. King. The Yearbook of English Studies 38.1-2 (2008): 49-67.
“Rereading Henry VIII in Foxe’s Acts and Monuments.” Reformation: The Journal of the Tyndale Society 12 (2007): 69-102.
“Biblical Allusion and Argument in Luke Shepherd’s Verse Satires.” Oxford Handbook to Tudor Literature. Edited by Mike Pincombe and Cathy Shrank. Forthcoming 2009 from
Oxford University Press.
“The Literary Afterlife of Henry VIII, 1558-1625.” Henry VIII and His Afterlife: Literature, Politics, and Art. Edited by Mark Rankin, Christopher Highley, and John N. King. Forthcoming 2009 from Cambridge University Press
“The Pattern of Illustration in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs: Problems and Opportunities.” Actes of Reading: Theorizing Reading and Interpretation in John Foxe's Actes and Monuments. Edited by Thomas Anderson and Ryan Netzley. Forthcoming 2009 from the University of Delaware Press.
“Tyndale, William” and “The New Testament of the Bible.” The Literary Encyclopedia: Literature in English Around the World. <www.litencyc.com>. Written with John N. King. April 2004.
Other:
“Complete Set of Woodcut Illustrations from the First Four English Editions of John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments (the ‘Book of Martyrs’), with Selected Images from the 1554 and 1559 Latin Editions. "The American Theological Library Association Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative. <http://www.atla.com/digitalresources/>. October 2005.
Selected Awards:
Special Funding Proposal Grant for Special Collections Development, James Madison University Libraries, 2008
Faculty Enhancement Grant, College of Arts and Letters, James Madison University, 2007
Faculty International Development Grant, Office of International Programs, James Madison University, 2007
Project Assistantship, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, “The Reformation of the Book: 1450-1700.” Oxford, England and Antwerp, Belgium, 2007.
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