Dr. Christopher Baker
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Professor of EnglishGamble Hall 130 Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Research & Teaching Interests |
| English Renaissance Literature, Religion, and Literature. |
Professional Activities |
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Nominated for the 2019-20 Georgia Southern University Research and Creative Activity Award H. Dean Propst Award for Outstanding Faculty, 2015-16 |
Recent Publications |
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“Hamlet and the Kairos”, The Ben Jonson Journal, 26.1 (2019), 62-77. Associate editor, New Variorum Cymbeline (forthcoming). “The Crucible after Six Decades” in Critical Insights: The Crucible, ed. Robert C. Evans (Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2018), xi – xxii. “The Crucible in Four Voices: Rouleau, Segal, Hytner, and Farber”, in Critical Insights: The Crucible, ed. Robert C. Evans (Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2018), 201-16. “On Rebels and Rebellion in Literature,” in Critical Insights: Rebellion, ed. Robert C. Evans (Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2017), xv-xxvi. ” ‘Real rebellion is a creator of values’: Doctors as Rebels in Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People and Camus’ The Plague.” In Critical Insights: Rebellion, ed. Robert C. Evans, (Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2017), 141-57. “Arthur Miller’s The Crucible: Four Productions,” in Critical Insights: The Crucible, ed. Robert C. Evans (Salem Press, forthcoming). “Lords of the Flies: Peter Brook, Harry Hook, and Golding’s Novel,” in Critical Insights: Lord of the Flies ed. Sarah Frederick (Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2017),188-202. ” ‘These Hard Hearts’: Aristotelian Morality and Peter Brook’s King Lear“, in Robert C. Evans, ed., Critical Approaches to Literature: Moral (Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2017), 82-98. “Henry V and Mark 9:23,” Notes and Queries, 64 (2), June 2017, 266-67. “Romeo and Juliet on Film“, in Robert C. Evans, ed., Critical Insights: Romeo and Juliet (Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2017), 129-44. ” ‘Life is a casting off’ in Death of a Salesman“, Arthur Miller Journal, 11:1 (Spring, 2016), 57-65. “Grapes in the Nest: The Grapes of Wrath and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” in Robert C. Evans, ed., Critical Insights: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ipswich,MA: Salem Press, 2015), 77-91. “A Trip with the Strange Woman: Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman and the Book of Proverbs,” South Atlantic Review, 78:3-4 (2015), 110-128. ” ‘Let me the curtains draw’: Othello in Performance,” in Othello: A Critical Reader, ed. Robert C. Evans, Arden Early Modern Drama Guides (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), 51-81. “Sidney, Religious Syncretism, and Henry VIII,” Studia Neophilologica, 86 (1), Autumn, 2014,17-36. “The Duchess of Malfi and Jonson’s ‘On My First Son,’ ” Notes and Queries 59 (2012), 573-75. Fourteen entries in The Milton Encyclopedia, ed. Thomas Corns (Yale University Press, 2012). ” ‘Greedily she ingorg’d’: Eve and the Bread of Life,” Milton Studies 52 (2011), 95-110. “Saint Peter and Macbeth’s Porter,” Ben Jonson Journal 18:2 (2011), 233-53. “Charmian’s ‘lass unparallel’d,‘ ” American Notes and Queries 23:3 (2010), 151-53 “Bone Lace and Donne’s ‘bracelet of bright haire about the bone,” John Donne Journal (28)(2009), 159-61. Religion in the Age of Shakespeare (Greenwood Press, 2007). “Jonson’s Volpone and Dante,” (with Richard Harp), Comparative Drama 39:1 (Spring 2005), 55-74. “Ovid, Othello, and the Pontic Scythians,” in Paula H. Payne, ed. Search for Meaning: “Porphyro’s Rose: Keats and T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Metaphysical Poets,” Journal of Modern Literature27:182 (Fall 2003), 57-62. Editor, Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution 1600 – 1720: A Biographical Dictionary (Greenwood Press, 2002). |
Last updated: 6/18/2019
