Denys Van Renen
Professor
Office:
THMH
109B |
Phone: (308) 865-8717 |
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
Publications
- The Other Exchange: Women, Servants, and the Urban Underclass in Early Modern English Literature. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
Chapters and Articles
- "'Fit entertainment': The Coronation Entry in Milton's Paradise Lost." Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 41.2 (2017): 69-88.
- “‘A Hollow Moan’: The Contours of the Nonhuman World in James Thomson’s The Seasons,” Animals and Humans: Sensibility and Representation, 1650-1820, ed. Katherine Quinsey, Oxford University Press, 2017.
- “‘The Air We Breathe’: Warfare in Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer,” College Literature 43.2 (2016): 397-426.
- “‘The Temple of Folly’: Transatlantic ‘Nature,’ Nabobs, and Environmental Degradation in The Woman of Colour (1808),” Romantic Sustainability: Endurance and the Natural World, 1780-1830, ed. Ben Robertson, Lexington Books, 2015. 147-168.
- “Decomposing the Picturesque and Re-collecting Nature in Dorothy Wordsworth's Scotland,” Journal of Narrative Theory 45.2 (2015): 165-92.
- "Reimagining Royalism in Aphra Behn’s America,” SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 53.3 (Summer 2013): 499 - 521.
- "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
- Defoe Society
- Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
Courses Taught
- ENG 466(UG)/874P(G): Literature of the English Restoration and Eighteenth Century (Spring 2014, Sociability)
- ENG 362A: Survey of British and Commonwealth Literature I (Fall 2013, Utopias)
- ENG 250GS: Introduction to Literature: British Literature (Spring 2013, Scottish Literature, 1750 – 1950)
- ENG 254GS: Introduction to Literature (Summer 2013, Temptation & Maturation: British Literature from Milton to Joyce)
- ENG 101: Introduction to Academic Writing
- ENG 102: Academic Writing and Research (Spring 2013, Travel Writing)