Alexander Dunlop, Associate Professor, received his PhD
in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. He specializes in the literary and intellectual history of the sixteenth
and early seventeenth centuries, with special focus on Shakespeare, Spenser,
and European lyric poetry. He has strong interests in classical literature
and in current interpretive theory.
Pedagogically he is committed to the undergraduate interdisciplinary cultural
survey and has long been an active participant in the department's World Literature program as well as in a program for architecture students and in
the University's Human Odyssey program on the natural sciences and the
humanities. He is past president of the Southern Comparative Literature
Association. He is at work on a book on Shakespeare's Sonnets.
Representative Publications
"Sonnet LXII and Beyond," Spenser Studies 15 (2000).
Approaches to Teaching Spenser's The Faerie Queene, co-editor (New York: Moderan Language Association of America, 1994).
The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser, co-editor (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989).
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