Faculty Directory
Ryan J. Stark
Assistant Professor of English
Contact:
117 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-863-2177
rjs36@psu.edu
Research Interests:
Renaissance and Enlightenment rhetoric, with specific interests in religion, science, and style.
Major Publication:
Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009.
Other Publications:
- "Paradise Lost as Incomplete Argument." 1650-1850: Aesthetics, Ideas, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, forthcoming.
- "Thomas Wilson's Apocalyptic Rhetoric." Studies in Philology 106 (2009): 341-53.
- "Some Aspects of Christian Mystical Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Poetry." Philosophy and Rhetoric 41 (2008): 260-77.
- "Protestant Theology and Apocalyptic Rhetoric in Roger Ascham's The Schoolmaster." Journal of the History of Ideas 69 (2008): 517-32.
- "The Decline of Astrology in the Jonathan Dove Almanac Series." Renaissance and Reformation 30 (2006): 43-66.
- "Cold Styles: On Milton’s Critiques of Frigid Rhetoric in Paradise Lost." Milton Quarterly 37 (2003): 21-30.
- "From Mysticism to Skepticism: Stylistic Reform in Seventeenth-Century British Philosophy and Rhetoric." Philosophy and Rhetoric 34 (2001): 322-34.
- "Clichés and Composition Theory." JAC: A Journal of Advanced Composition 19 (1999): 453-64.
- "Margaret Cavendish and Composition Style." Rhetoric Review 17 (1999): 264-81.
