Faculty Directory
Laura Knoppers
Professor of English
Contact:
252 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-865-5640
llk6@psu.edu
Office Hours:
Monday 2:30-4 and Wednesday 10:30-12
Educational History:
Ph.D., M.A. Harvard University
B.A. Calvin College
Research Interests:
John Milton; seventeenth-century politics, religion, and literature; Oliver Cromwell; early modern women's writing; seventeenth-century poetry and prose; English civil war literature; print culture and the history of the book; textual scholarship and scholarly editing; Shakespeare
Awards and Grants:
- Katherine Pantzer Fellowship in the British Book Trades, Bibliographical Society of America , 2006.
- Class of 1933 Distinction in the Humanities, College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State , 2003.
- NEH Challenge Grant (with Yvonne Gaudelius), $500,000, for the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, 2002
- Short-term Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, Penn State, 1997-99.
- Research Fellowship, Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, Penn State , 1996.
- Pew Charitable Trust Fund Fellowship, 1995-96.
- Helena Rubenstein Endowed Faculty Fellowship, Penn State , 1993.
- Folger Shakespeare Library Short-Term Resident Fellowship, 1989.
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1989.
Major Publications
- Constructing Cromwell: Ceremony, Portrait, and Print, 1645-1661 ( Cambridge University Press, 2000)
- Historicizing Milton : Spectacle, Power, and Poetry in Restoration England (University of Georgia Press, 1994)
- Milton in Popular Culture , edited with Gregory Semenza (Palgrave, 2006)
- Monstrous Bodies / Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe , edited with Joan Landes (Cornell University Press, 2004)
- Puritanism and Its Discontents, edited collection ( University of Delaware , 2003)
- Over 20 articles and book chapters, including in such journals as ELH , Renaissance Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance , Modern Philology , and The Seventeenth Century.
- Over 20 book reviews and book review essays in such journals as Reviews in History , Albion , Renaissance Quarterly , Religion and Literature, JEGP, Milton Quarterly, Modern Philology, Clio, Review of English Studies, Shakespeare Quarterly , Christianity and Literature , and Seventeenth-Century News
Work in Progress
- Scholarly edition of John Milton's 1671 companion poems, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes (Oxford University Press, 2008). Volume 2 of The Complete Works of John Milton , gen. ed. Thomas N. Corns and Gordon Campbell
- Monograph project: Divulging Household Privacies: The Politics of Domesticity from the Caroline Court to Paradise Lost
National Professional Service
- President of the Milton Society of America , 2006; Vice-President, 2005
- Chair, Northeast Milton Seminar, 2006-
- Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant Program, 2004
- Member of Seventeenth-Century Literature Division Committee, MLA 2001-2006
- Editorial Board, Milton Encyclopedia , gen. ed. Thomas Corns, 2002-
- Elected member, Northeast Milton Seminar, 1998-
- National Advisory Board, Pew Charitable Trust Fund Fellowship Program, 1997-1999
- Member of Executive Board, Milton Society of America , 1993-95
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