Brent Dawson

Research
I research and teach Renaissance literature, including Spenser, Shakespeare, Cavendish, and Milton. I'm interested in theories of nature and matter, both early modern and contemporary. My first book project, Worldly Muck, looks at the importance of Lucretian materialism to early modern notions of universality, particularly as they arise in transatlantic encounters. The second project, Drift, attends to how early modern practices of meditation, particularly in the genres of poetry and essay, give an account of a mind embedded in a material world.
My work has been published in ELH, New Literary History, Renaissance Drama, and the collection This Distracted Globe: Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature.
Courses
Term | CRN | Course | Section Title | Fulfills | Syllabus |
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Fall 2022 | 12082 | ENG 436 | Advanced Shakespeare | English Major, B-Literature 1500-1789, English Minor | N/A |
Fall 2022 | 12206 | ENG 536 | Advanced Shakespeare | Graduate Studies | N/A |
Spring 2022 | 33623 | ENG 207 | Shakespeare | A & L, English Major, Lower-Division Elective, English Minor |
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Winter 2022 | 22446 | ENG 209 | The Craft of the Sentence | English Major, Lower-Division Elective, Writing, English Minor |
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Winter 2022 | 22483 | ENG 434 | Spenser | English Major, B-Literature 1500-1789, English Minor |
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Winter 2022 | 22612 | ENG 534 | Spenser | Graduate Studies |
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