Faculty Directory
Patrick Cheney
Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Contact:
6 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-865-9283
pgc2@psu.edu
Office Hours:
Tuesday and Wednesday 1-2 and Friday 2-3
Educational History:
Ph.D., M.A. University of Toronto (1979, 1974)
B.A. University of Montana (1972)
Research Interests:
Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Renaissance literature; authorship and ideas of a literary career; genre; pastoral; theories of influence and intertextuality; Ovid and tragedy; poetry and theatre; republicanism; textual scholarship and scholarly editing
Awards and Grants:
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Scholarly Editions Program, 2007-2008
- Class of 1933 Distinction in the Humanities Award, College of Liberal Arts, Penn State, 2006
- Resident Scholars Grant, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Penn State, 2006
- Mellon Fellowship, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 2005
- Individual Faculty Grant, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Penn State, 2005
- Erasmus Award (Advising), Department of Comparative Literature, Penn State, 2004
- Visiting Research Fellowship, Merton College, University of Oxford, England, 2001
- Research Fellowship, Bibliographical Society of America, 2001
- Mellon Foundation Grant, 2000 and 2001
- Term Fellowship, Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, Penn State, 1999-2001
- Roma Gill Award, Marlowe Society of America, 1999
- Internal Faculty Award, College of Liberal Arts, Penn State, 2000; 1998; 1997; 1996; 1995; 1992-93
- Research Fellowship, Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, Penn State, 1997; 1996; 1995; 1987
Major Publications:
- Shakespeare's Literary Authorship (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
- “Recent Studies in the English Renaissance.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 47 (2007): 199-275. Omnibus review of 2005-2006 books
- Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
- Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession: Ovid, Spenser, Counter-Nationhood (University of Toronto Press, 1997)
- Spenser's Famous Flight: A Renaissance Idea of a Literary Career (University of Toronto Press, 1993)
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
- The Collected Poems of Christopher Marlowe, co-editied with Brian J. Striar (Oxford University Press, 2006)
- The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Other Publications :
Co-edited collections:
- Early Modern English Poerty: A Critical Companion (Oxford University Press, 2007), co-edited with Andrew Hadfield and Garrett Sullivan
- Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion (Oxford University Press, 2006), co-edited with Garrett Sullivan and Andrew Hadfield
- Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), co-edited with Elizabeth Jane Bellamy and Michael Schoenfeldt
- Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual (New York: AMS Press, 2003) , co-edited with Theresa M. Krier and John Watkins
- European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance (University of Toronto Press, 2002) co-edited with Fredrick A. de Armas
- Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age (University of Kentucky Press, 2000), co-edited with Lauren Silberman
- Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry (MLA, 2000), co-edited with Anne Lake Prescott
Over 40 book chapters, introductions, articles, in such journals as ELH, Shakespeare Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance, Spenser Studies, Milton Studies, Renaissance Drama, and Studies in Philology
Over 20 book reviews, in such journals as Shakespeare Quarterly, Renaissance Quarterly, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, and Modern Philology
Forthcoming Publications:
- Marlowe's Republican Authorship: Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
- The Oxford Edition of the Collected Works of Edmund Spenser (Oxford University Press, 2009-2015), co-edited with Elizabeth Fowler, Jospeh Loewenstein, David Lee Miller, and Andrew Zurcher
- Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry (Blackwell, 2010)
- The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, co-edited by Charles Martindale and David Hopkins: Volume 2 on The Renaissance, co-edited with Philip Hardie (Oxford University Press, 2012)
National Professional Service:
- Editorial Advisory Board, Renaissance Quarterly, 2006-2008
- Discipline Representative , Renaissance Society of America, 2006-2008
- Delegate, Modern Language Association, Delegate Assembly, Division of Literature of the English Renaissance excluding Shakespeare, 2000-2002
- President of the International Spenser Society, 2000-2001; Vice-President 1998-1999; Member 1995-1997
- Editorial Board Member of Spenser Studies, 1999--
- Chair of "Spenser at Kalamazoo,” 1997-1999
- Co-Director of the Mellon Issues in Interpretation Seminar on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000 and 2001, with Robert R. Edwards
- Co-Organizer of International Spenser conferences at Yale University in 1996 and at Pembroke College, Cambridge University in 2001
- Co-director of summer institute, Penn State, “The Artist in an Age of Imperial Culture: Careers in the Early Modern Period", 1998, with Frederick de Armas
- Editor, Comparative Literature Studies, 1992-2001
