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Chris Hodgkins

Contact Information
            E-mail: cthodgki@uncg.edu
            Office: MHRA 3316
            Office Phone: 336-334-4695

At UNCG Since: 1991

Education
            Ph.D. University of Chicago-1988
            M.A. University of Chicago-1982
            B.A. University of the Pacific-1980

Research Interests
Dr. Hodgkins's interests are in the literature of the Renaissance, specifically the early modern protestant lover's quarrel with beauty, art, play, and worldly power. He directs the George Herbert's Living Legacies conferences, which in 2007-2008 brought over 300 scholars and poets together in Salisbury, England and at UNCG to reflect on Herbert's pastoral life in Britain and his print and cultural legacies worldwide, and is planning another meeting in Montgomery, Wales, in the fall of 2011. He holds a 2010- 2011 NEH Digital Humanities Scholarly Editions Grant to co-edit The Digital Temple, the first authoritative born-digital edition of Herbert's The Temple incorporating the two known manuscripts and the 1633 first edition. As Director of UNCG's Atlantic World Research Network, he is developing resources and conference venues at home and abroad to explore the many ways in which history, culture, and the environment have been made and remade around the Atlantic Rim.

Selected Publications

Books

• Reforming Empire: Protestant Colonialism and Conscience in British Literature. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2002.
• Authority, Church and Society in George Herbert: Return to the Middle Way. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1993.

Collections

• Editor. George Herbert's Travels: International Print and Cultural Legacies. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2011.
• Editor. George Herbert's Pastoral: New Essays on the Poet and Priest of Bemerton. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2010.
• Co-editor with Daniel W. Doerksen. Centered on the Word: Literature, Scripture, and the Tudor-Stuart Middle Way. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2004.

Articles

• "Prospero's Apocalypse," in Word and Rite: The Bible and Ceremony in Selected Shakespearean Works. Edited by Beatrice Batson. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2010, 153-67.
• "Redeeming Love: Herbert's Lyric Regeneration." Renaissance Papers (2009): 122-31.
• “‘Yet I love thee’: The ‘Ways of Learning’ and ‘Grovelling Wit’ in George Herbert’s ‘The Pearl.’” George Herbert Journal: George Herbert at the 2005 RSA Meeting, Cambridge University 27 (2006): 24-31.
• “Plays out of Season: Puritanism, Antitheatricalism, and Parliament’s 1642 Closing of the Theaters.” Centered on the Word: Literature, Scripture, and the Tudor-Stuart Middle Way. Ed. Daniel Doerksen and Christopher Hodgkins.  Newark: U of Delaware P, 2004.
• “The Uses of Atrocity: Satanic Spaniards and Hispanic Satans from Las Casas to Milton.” Mediterranean Studies 8 (1999): 175-92.
• “The Nubile Savage: Pocahontas as Heathen Convert and Virgilian Bride.”  Renaissance Papers. Ed. T. H. Howard-Hill and Philip Rollinson. Columbia: Camden House, 1998. 81-90.
• “Stooping to Conquer: Heathen Idolatry and Protestant Humility in the Imperial Legend of Sir Francis Drake.” Studies in Philology 94 (1997): 428-64.
• “‘Showing Holy’: Herbert and the Rhetoric of Sanctity.” New Perspectives on the Seventeenth Century English Religious Lyric. Ed. John R. Roberts. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1993.

Awards and Honors

• NEH Digital Humanities Scholarly Editions Grant, 2010-2011 — for The Digital Temple
• Class of 1952 Distinguished Excellence Professor in English, UNCG, 2007-9.
• UNCG Senior Alumni Teaching Excellence Award, 2003-4.
• Pew Charitable Trusts, Pew Lecture Series Program Speaker, 2001-3.
• Pew Charitable Trusts, Pew Christian Scholars Program Fellow, 1998-9.
• UNCG Research Assignments, 1998-9.
• Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Huntington Library, Summer 1995.
• Nominee, 1993 Book-of-the-Year Award, Modern Language Association Conference on Christianity and Literature, for Authority, Church, and Society in George Herbert.
• NEH Summer Stipend: Piracy, Prayer, and Possession," British, and Bodleian Libraries, March-July 1992.
• Whiting Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1986-7.
• MA with Honors, University of Chicago, 1982.
• BA summa cum laude, first in class, University of the Pacific, 1980.

Links
            Reforming Empire: Protestant Colonialism and Conscience in British Literature
            Atlantic World Research Network
            The Folger Institute
            George Herbert Society
            Co-Editor, The Digital Temple

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