Andrew Escobedo
Associate Professor
Co-Editor of Spenser Studies
English Renaissance Literature and Culture
Office: 352
Office Phone: 593-2838
Email: escobedo@ohio.edu
Degrees
Ph.D., in English, University of California at Berkeley, Fall 1997
B.A., in English, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1989
Publications
BOOKS:
Nationalism and Historical Loss in Renaissance England: Foxe, Dee, Spenser, Milton (Cornell University Press, 2004)
Volition’s Face: Personification and the Will in Renaissance Literature (in progress)
ARTICLES:
“Spenser and Classical Philosophy,” in The Oxford Handbook of Spenser Studies, ed. R. A. McCabe (Oxford University Press, 2011), 520-537
“Unlucky Deeds and the Shame of Othello,” in Shakespeare and Moral Agency, ed. Michael D. Bristol (New York: Continuum, 2010), 159-170
“The Sincerity of Rapture,” Spenser Studies 24 (2009): 185-208
“No Early-Modern Nations? Revising Modern Theories of Nationhood,” in Reading the Nation in English Literature: A Critical Reader, ed. J. Wright and E. Sauer (Routledge, 2009), 203-210
“John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments, 1563-1583: Antiquity and the Affect of History,” in The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Literature, 1485-1603, ed. Mike Pincombe and Cathy Shrank (Oxford University Press, 2009), 504-520
“Allegorical Agency and the Sins of Angels,” English Literary History 75:4 (2008): 787-818
“From Britannia to England: Cymbeline and the Beginning of Nations,” Shakespeare Quarterly 59:1 (2008): 60-87
“The Invisible Nation,” in Early Modern Nationalism and Milton’s England, ed. Paul Stevens and David Loewenstein (Toronto University Press, 2008), 173-201
“Daemon Lovers: Will, Personification, and Character,” Spenser Studies 22 (2007): 203-225
“Past and Present: Memorializing England in Milton’s Early Writing,” in Approaches to Teaching Milton’s Shorter Poetry and Prose, ed. Peter C. Herman (MLA, 2007), 29-34
“The Millennial Border Between Tradition and Innovation: Foxe, Milton, and the Idea of Historical Progress” in Anglo-American Millennialism, from Milton to the Millerites, eds. Richard Conners and Andrew Colin Gow (Brill Press, 2004), 1-42
Co-authored with Beth Quitslund: “Introduction: Sage and Serious: Milton’s Chaste Original,” Milton Quarterly 37:4 (2003): 179-83; Special Issue: “The Faerie Queene at Ludlow,” ed. Andrew Escobedo and Beth Quitslund
“Despair and the Proportion of the Self,” Spenser Studies 17 (Spring 2003): 75-90
“The Tudor Search for Arthur and the Poetics of Historical Loss,” Exemplaria 14:1 (Spring 2002): 127-165
“The Book of Martyrs: Apocalyptic Time in the Narrative of the Nation,” Prose Studies 20:2 (August 1997): 1-17
Curriculum Vitae
Teaching and Research Interests:
Renaissance poetry, allegory and personification, philosophy of action, reformation culture and literature, theories of nationalism, historical consciousness
Awards
NEH Fellowship, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2009-2010
2009 James Holly Hanford Prize, Milton Society of America, for Best Essay Published on Milton in 2008
2005 Nancy Dasher prize for best book in the category of Literary Scholarship by a professor in Ohio (awarded by the College English Association of Ohio)
NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers: “The English Reformation: Literature, History, Art,” Director John King, Ohio State University, 2003
Ping Institute for Teaching in the Humanities Fellowship, Ohio University, 2000-2003 (three-year tenure)
Ohio University Research Committee Grant, Spring 1999