Assistant Professor
Email: vanrenendw@unk.edu
Education:
Ph.D., University of Illinois; M.A.,
University of Illinois; M.S., Stanford University; B.A., B.S., University of
Colorado
Areas of Specialization:
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature, John
Milton, Cultural Studies, Scottish Studies, Ecocriticism, Native Studies
Courses Taught:
- ENG 466: Literature of the English Restoration and
Eighteenth Century
- ENG 362A: Survey of British and Commonwealth
Literature I
- ENG 250GS: Introduction to Literature: British
Literature (Scottish Literature, 1750 – 1950, Spring 2013)
- ENG 254GS: Introduction to Literature (Temptation
& Maturation:
British Literature from Milton to Joyce, Summer 2013)
- ENG 101: Introduction to Academic Writing
- ENG 102: Academic Writing and Research
(Travel Writing, Spring 2013)
Publications:
Journal Articles
- "Reimagining Royalism in Aphra
Behn’s America,” SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 53.3
(Summer 2013).
- "Biogeography, Climate, and National
Identity in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker,” Philological Quarterly
90.4 (2012): 395 - 424. (Abstract)
- “Montagu’s Letters from the Levant:
Contesting the Borders of European Selfhood,” Journal for Early Modern
Cultural Studies 11.2 (2011): 1 - 34.
- "A ‘Birthright into a New World’:
Representing the Town on Brome’s Stage,” Comparative Drama 45.2 (2011):
35 - 63.
Affiliations:
Modern Language Association, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association
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