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Achsah Guibbory
Professor of English
Chair of the Department of English
Professor Guibbory has published numerous articles on seventeenth-century literature and culture, recently with a special emphasis on religion and national identity. She is currently completing a book entitled Imagined Identities: The Uses of Judaism in Seventeenth-Century England, to be published by Oxford University Press.
Her scholarship and teaching have been recognized with a number of awards, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship and the Harriet and the Charles Luckman Undergraduate Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Illinois.
Professor Guibbory has served as president of both the Milton Society of America and the John Donne Society.
Selected Publications
The Map of Time: Seventeenth-Century English Literature and Ideas of Pattern in History (Urbana, 1986)
Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton: Literature, Religion, and Cultural Conflict in Seventeenth-Century English Literature (Cambridge, 1998; paper 2006)
The Cambridge Companion to John Donne (Cambridge, 2006)
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EDUCATION:
B.A., Indiana University
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Seventeenth-century literatures and culture
Milton
Donne
Religious history and interfaith relations (particularly in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries)
Religion and national identity