Department of English

Office: Marist 329

Phone: 202-319-5488

Email: gibbonsd@cua.edu

 

Currently Teaching: Hum 101, Eng 345, Eng 341-02

 

Teaching Interests: Just about anything you might call literature, film, or art! More specifically: Renaissance/Early Modern Literature of all kinds, Lyric Poetry, Homer, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Virgil, St. Augustine, Beowulf, Gawain and the Green Knight, Medieval Lyric and Mystical Writing, Dante, Piers Plowman, Chaucer, Petrarch, Wyatt, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, Southwell, Crashaw, Milton, Jacobean Drama, Joyce, Early Modern Literature and Religion, Shakespeare and Film, Violence and Literature, Literary Mysticism, Graphic Novels.

 

Research Interests: Renaissance/Early Modern Drama and Poetry; Religion and Literature; The Book of Common Prayer; Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, Southwell, Crashaw, Thomas Heywood, Robert Armin, Robert Bellarmine, Nicholas of Cusa, Theresa of Avila.

 

Daniel R. Gibbons’ current book project focuses on English representations of divided spiritual community in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, with special focus on the Book of Common Prayer and the lyric poetry of Edmund Spenser, John Donne, George Herbert, Robert Southwell, and Richard Crashaw. Other current projects include studies of The Tempest in light of St. Augustine’s writing on will and causality; rhetorical engagements with divided audiences in Shakespeare’s comedies, with special focus on As You Like It; the Arminian context of Macbeth; and Donne’s representations of Roman Catholicism in his prose writing. 

 

His scholarly writing and reviews have appeared in Religion and Literature, SEL, and The Upstart Crow.  His most recent publication is an article examining Thomas Heywood’s use of the protean space of a suburban brothel to advance an unexpected literary defense of the suburban London theatres in The Wise-woman of Hogsdon (“Thomas Heywood in the House of the Wise-woman.” SEL 49.2 (Spring 2009): 391-416).

 

Dr. Gibbons’ work has been recognized and supported by various fellowships and awards, including the Charlotte W. Newcombe fellowship for work in Religion and Ethics in 2008.

 

Dr. Gibbons is also the current Director of Undergraduate Studies in English and advises all current and potential English majors. If you are an English major with questions, or if you are thinking of taking on a major in English, please email or call Dr. Gibbons at gibbonsd@cua.edu or 202-319-5488.