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Associate Director of Graduate Studies
Joseph Black received his BA and PhD from the University of Toronto. He joined the English Department in 2004, after six years as Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. He was Editor of the Sidney Journal (2000-05), on the General Editorial Board of the Broadview Anthology of British Literature , and currently serves on the editorial board of English Literary Renaissance (co-editor, 2007-08).
His speciality is early modern British literature, with research interests that fall under the broad rubric of book history. His recent work explores the interplay between early modern writings and the material and social contexts of their production and reception, focusing particularly on pamphlet warfare and the public sphere, oppositional communities and the social uses of texts, the complex dialogue between print and manuscript culture, and the history of private libraries.
Black's publications include The Martin Marprelate Tracts (Cambridge University Press, 2008); Private Libraries of Renaissance England , vol. 7 (MRTS, forthcoming 2008), volume editor; The Broadview Anthology of British Literature , vol. 2: The Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century (Broadview, 2006), co-edited with Anne Lake Prescott; The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century English Verse and Prose (Broadview, 2000), co-edited with Alan Rudrum and Holly Nelson; articles in journals such as History Compass , Spenser Studies , Sixteenth Century Journal , and Publishing History ; contributions to Oxford Handbook to Spenser , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Private Libraries of Renaissance England , and Dictionary of Literary Biography ; and reviews in journals such as The Medieval Review , The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society , Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America , Renaissance Quarterly , Sidney Journal , and Canadian Bulletin for the History of Books, Libraries, and Archives . Work in progress includes a book-length edition of the seventeenth-century manuscript catalogue of the Sidney family library at Penshurst Place, co-edited with Germaine Warkentin and William Bowen.
His teaching interests include seventeenth-century literature, Milton, Shakespeare, the epic tradition, and book history.
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