Recent Graduate Accomplishments in The Renaissance Area

Recent Graduate Accomplishments

Jeremy Kiene (Ph.D., 2006) is currently an instructor at McDaniel College in Maryland. His dissertation was on Spenser, Machiavelli, and Elizabethan political thought.

Ineke Murakami (Ph.D., 2006) is assistant professor of English at SUNY – Albany. Her dissertation gave an economic and political interpretation of the morality play and its relation to the London stage. She currently has articles forthcoming in SEL and Religion and Literature.

Jennifer Nichols (Ph.D., 2006) is currently teaching at Notre Dame on a post-doctoral fellowship. Her dissertation was on materialism in Milton and Donne.

Lauri Dietz (Ph.D., 2005) is assistant professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at Angelo State University in Texas. Her dissertation was on Marlowe, sexuality, and the formation of the nation-state. An article on blank verse is forthcoming in The Companion to Pre-1600 British Poetry.

Kathleen Tonry (Ph.D., 2005, Late Medieval and Early Modern) is assistant professor of English and Associate Director of the University Writing Center at the University of Connecticut. Her dissertation was on Caxton and the intersections of Ricardian politics and early print culture.