Beth Quitslund
Associate Professor
English Renaissance and Reformation: Spenser; Milton; metrical psalmody
Office: Ellis 348
Office Phone: 593-2829
Email: quitslun@ohio.edu
Degrees
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1997
A.B., Harvard College, 1991
Publications
The Reformation in Rhyme: Sternhold, Hopkins and the English Metrical Psalter, 1547-1603. Ashgate, 2008.
“Teaching Us How to Sing?: The Peculiarity of the Sidney Psalter,” The Sidney Journal 23:1-2 (2005).
“The Virginia Company, 1606-1624: Anglicanism’s Millennial Adventure.” Anglo-American Millennialism, from Milton to the Millerites. Ed. Richard Connors and Andrew Colin Gow. Brill, 2004.
With Andrew Escobedo: “Introduction. Sage and Serious Milton: Milton’s Chaste Original.” Milton Quarterly Special Issue: The Faerie Queene at Ludlow 37:4 (2003).
“Despair and the Composition of the Self.” Spenser Studies 17 (2003).
“Elizabethan Epideixis and the Spenserian Art of State Idolatry.” The European Legacy 5:1 (2000).
“Performing Reformation in the New World.” Mas: La Trinitàto Trinity. Ed. Milla Riggio and Gordon Rohlehr. National Carnival Commission of Trinidad and Tobago, 2000.
“Idologographies: Versions of Miltonic Iconoclasm.” Milton Quarterly 33:1 (1999).
Work in Progress
”The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected Into English Meter by T. Sternhold, J. Hopkins, and Others : A Critical Edition”
“Psalm Wars: Congregational Song and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century England”
Courses
English 202: Critical Approaches to Poetry
English 250: Introduction to Textual Analysis
English 278T/298T: English Honors Tutorial (Renaissance)
English 301: Shakespeare's Histories
English 304: The English Bible
English 311: English Literature to 1500
English 312: English Literature 1500 to 1660
English 460: The Erotics of Devotion
English 464: Milton
English 513/713: 17th-Century Devotional Poetry
English 517/717: Milton
English 570C/771F: 16th-Century Poetry