John Watkins
Professor
Ph.D. English, Yale University, 1990
210H Lind Hall
(612) 624-8879
watki005@umn.edu
Department Affiliations
English; Medieval Studies; Italian Studies
Areas of Expertise
historiography; sovereignty and queenship; medieval and early modern diplomacy; premodern political culture; classical and medieval origins of the Renaissance
Selected Publications
Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England: Literature, History, Sovereignty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
The Specter of Dido: Spenser and Virgilian Epic. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
Shakespeare’s Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age. Co-authored with Carole Levin, In progress.
"Towards a New History of Medieval and Early Modern Diplomacy." The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Guest Editor, Special issue.
“Elizabeth Through Venetian Eyes.” Explorations in Renaissance Culture (2004).
“‘Old Bess in the Ruff’: Remembering Elizabeth I, 1625-1660.” English Literary Renaissance 30 (2000).
“Marriage à la Mode 1559: Elizabeth I, Elisabeth de Valois, and the Changing Patterns of Diplomatic Marriage.” Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England. Ed. Carole Levin and Robert Buckholz. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, In press.
“Spenser’s Poetry and the Apocalypse. ” Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion. 2. Ed. Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, and Garrett A. Sullivan Jr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
“‘Out of Her Ashes May a Second Phoenix Rise’: James I and the Legacy of Elizabethan Anti-Catholicism.” Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern England. Ed. Arthur Marotti. Baskingstoke: Macmillan, 1999.
“The Allegorical Theatre: Moralities, Interludes, and Protestant Drama.” Cambridge History of Medieval Literature. Ed. David Wallace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Graduate Courses
Queenship in Medieval and Early Modern France and England
Renaissance Lyric
Spenser
Epic
Elizabeth I
Undergraduate Courses
Cultures of the Italian Renaissance: Florence, Rome, Venice
Shakespeare
Survey of British Literatures and Culture
Milton and Tasso
Stuart England: The Century of Revolution
Families in Epics and Novels
Early Modern Literature and Culture