College of Humanities People
John King, Distinguished Prof of Eng & Relig Studs
Center for the Study of Religion: http://religion.osu.edu/Department of English: http://english.osu.edu/
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies: http://cmrs.osu.edu/
Office Information
460 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: king.2@osu.edu
Phone: 292-6065
Fax: 292-7816
Office Hours:
By appointment
Personal URL(s):
and: http://www.gf.org/fellows/16594-john-n-king
460 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: king.2@osu.edu
Phone: 292-6065
Fax: 292-7816
Office Hours:
By appointment
Personal URL(s):
and: http://www.gf.org/fellows/16594-john-n-king
General Background:
John N. King, Distinguished University Professor, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English & of Religious Studies, University Distinguished Scholar (Ph.D., University of Chicago): the English Renaissance, with emphasis on sixteenth-century literature, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton; Reformation literature, history, and art; the history of the book; printing history; and manuscript studies. Author of English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition; Tudor Royal Iconography: Literature and Art in an Age of Religious Crisis; Spenser's Poetry and the Reformation Tradition; Milton and Religious Controversy: Satire and Polemic in Paradise Lost; Foxe's Book of Martyr's and Early Modern Print Culture ; and many essays and reviews. Editor of Reformation, a periodical dedicated to early modern European history, literature, art, language, theology, translation theory, and Bible studies, and co-editor of Literature and History , a journal that explores connections among writing, history, and ideology. Editor of The Vocation of John Bale, Anne Askew's Examinations, and Voices of the English Reformation: A Source Book. Co-editor of John Foxe and His World and of Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, Bibliographical Society of America, Folger Shakespeare Library, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Henry E. Huntington Library, Lilly Endowment in conjunction with the National Humanities Center, National Endowment for the Humanities, Renaissance Society of America, and Rockefeller Foundation. Faculty affiliate of OSU's Department of Comparative Studies, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Center for the Study of Religion.
Literature and Culture of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations
