Andrew Escobedo
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
English Renaissance Literature and Culture
Office: 381
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
Nationalism and Historical Loss in Renaissance England: Foxe, Dee, Spenser, Milton (Cornell University Press, 2004)
“Allegorical Agency and the Sins of Angels,” forthcoming in English Literary History
“From Britannia to England: Cymbeline and the Beginning of Nations,” Shakespeare Quarterly 59:1 (2008): 60-87
“Daemon Lovers: Will, Personification, and Character,” Spenser Studies 22 (2007): 203-225
“The Invisible Nation,” in Early Modern Nationalism and Milton’s England, ed. Paul Stevens and David Loewenstein (Toronto University Press, 2008)
“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, reformation culture and literature, theories of nationalism, historical consciousness
Awards
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