Office: Keezell 222
Phone: 540-568-3755
Email: rankinmc@jmu.edu
Office hours: Fall 2009 - M 2:30-5:00, TH 9:00-11:30 and by appointment
Title: Assistant Professor of English, Director of Undergraduate Internships (Website), Coordinator of Medieval & Renaissance Studies Minor
Courses: Fall 2009
ENG 235 Survey of English Literature I, MWF 9:05-9:55
ENG 299 Writing About Literature, MWF 1:25-2:15
ENG 313 Poetry and Prose of the Early British Renaissance, MWF 11:15-12:05
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:
“Reading Polemical Books in the More-Tyndale Controversy.” The Huntington Library Quarterly 73 (2010), forthcoming.
“Print Culture and Tudor Literature.” The Sixteenth Century Journal 40 (2009), forthcoming.
“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.
“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.
Selected Awards:
Project Assistantship, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, “The Reformation of the Book: 1450-1650,” Oxford, UK & Antwerp, Belgium, 2007 & 2009.
Muste Award for Best Dissertation of the Year, Department of English, The Ohio State University, 2008.
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