Barbara Brumbaugh received her Ph.D. in
English Literature from the Ohio State University. Her main area
of specialization is Renaissance
literature, especially religious and political controversy and sixteenth-century
literature. Other areas of interest include epic as genre, medieval literature,
classical literature, and the history of rhetoric. She has had articles
accepted by Modern Philology, Spenser Studies, and SEL: Studies in English
Literature 1500-1900 and is completing a book manuscript entitled "'The
Great Work Indeed in Hand': Apocalyptic History and the Protestant Cause
in Sir Philip Sidney's New Arcadia."
At Auburn, Barbara teaches primarily World Literature I and English Compostion
II.
Representative Publications
"Cecropia and the Church of Antichrist in Sir Philip Sidney's New
Arcadia." SEL:
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 38.1 (Winter 1998): 19-43.
"Jerusalem Delivered and the Allegory of Sidney's Revised Arcadia." Modern Philology 101.3 (Feb. 2004): 337-370.
"'Under the Pretty Tales of Wolves and Sheep':
Sidney's Ambassadorial Table Talk and the Protestant Hunting Dialogues." Spenser
Studies 14(2000):273-290; "Temples Defaced and Altars in the
Dust: Edwardian and Elizabethan Church Reform and Sidney's 'Now
Was Our Heav'nly Vault Deprived of the Light.'" Spenser Studies
16(2002): 197-229.
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