Beth Quitslund
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1997
A.B., Harvard College, 1991
Scholarly Focus
- English Renaissance and Reformation
- Spenser
- Milton
- Metrical psalmody
- Bibles and their interpreters
- History of printing
Selected Publications
Books and Monographs
. 2 vols. Ed. with Nicholas Temperley. Renaissance English Text Society 36. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2018.
The Reformation in Rhyme: Sternhold, Hopkins and the English Metrical Psalter, 1547鈥1603. St Andrew鈥檚 Studies in Reformation History. Ashgate, 2008.
Selected Essays
鈥溾榃ithout pity heare their dying grones鈥: Metrical Psalms and the Poetry of Sacred Violence.鈥 Forthcoming in Religion and Literature.
鈥淐ontinuous Sellers and Their Buyers: A Brief Survey of Unknowns.鈥 New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, VI: Papers of the Renaissance Text Society, 2011鈥14. Ed. Arthur Marotti. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS. Forthcoming 2019.
鈥溾楢 Second Bible鈥: Liturgy and Interpretation in the Expositions of John Boys.鈥 Reformation 23.1 (2018).
鈥淧rotestant Theology and Devotion.鈥 Edmund Spenser in Context. Ed. Andrew Escobedo. Cambridge UP, 2016.
鈥淥ld Wine in New Boxes: Niche Bibles and the King James Version.鈥 The King James Bible, Across Centuries, Across Borders. Ed. Angelica Duran. Dusquesne UP, 2014.
鈥淭he Psalm Book.鈥 The Elizabethan Top Ten: defining print popularity in the early modern period. Andrew Kesson and Emma Smith, eds. Ashgate, 2013.
鈥淭he Singing Psalms: Fun and Prophet.鈥 Private and Household Devotion in Early Modern Britain. Alec Ryrie and Jessica Martin, eds. Ashgate, 2012.
鈥淭eaching Us How To Sing?: The Peculiarity of the Sidney Psalter.鈥 The Sidney Journal 23 (2005).
鈥淭he Virginia Company, 1609鈥1624: Anglicanism鈥檚 Millennial Adventure.鈥 Anglo-American Millenialism, from Milton to the Millerites. Ed. Andrew Gow and Richard Connors. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, Brill Academic Publishers, 2004.
With Andrew Escobedo: 鈥淚ntroduction. Sage and Serious: Milton鈥檚 Chaste Original.鈥 Milton Quarterly 37.4 (2003).
鈥淒espair and the Composition of the Self.鈥 Spenser Studies 17 (2003).
鈥淓lizabethan Epideixis and the Spenserian Art of State Idolatry.鈥 The European Legacy 5.1 (2000).
Selected Awards and Fellowships
91探花 Chapman/Clapp Outstanding Advisor Award, 2015
Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship Grant, Calvin College, 2012鈥13
Folger Shakespeare Library Short-term Fellowship, 2010
Huntington Library Mayer Fellowship, 2009
Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, 1996鈥97
Courses Taught
- CAS 2400: Knowing What We Know
- ENG 2020: Introduction to Poetry and Drama
- ENG 2980T: English Honors Tutorial (Early British)
- ENG 3040: The English Bible
- ENG 3110: English Literature to 1500
- ENG : English Literature 1500 to 1660
- ENG 4600: The Erotics of Devotion
- ENG 4640: Milton
- ENG 5130/7130: 16th-Century Poetry or 17th-Century Devotional Poetry
- ENG 5170/7170: Milton