Dr. James Doelman

Academic Background

• M.A. and Ph.D., McMaster University
• B.A. (Hons). Western University

Research and Scholarly Interests

General area of interest is late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century literature; within that broad area, I work with:

• Elegies and epitaphs
• Religious poetry
• Poetry in manuscript

Teaching

• Introduction to Literature and Composition
• Poetics
• Renaissance Literature
• Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
• Death and Early Modern Literature
• Tolkien, Lewis and Friends

Representative Publications

• King James I and the Religious Culture of England, Oxford: Boydell and Brewer, 2000.
• The Epigram in England: 1590-1640. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.
• “Claimed by two religions: The Elegy on Thomas Washington, 1623, and Middleton’s A Game at Chesse”. Studies in Philology. 110 (2013): 318-49.
• ‘The Daring Pen of Sorrow’: Elegies on the Death of Thomas Murray (1564-1623)”, Seventeenth Century. October 2017.