Emily Ransom
Degrees
Ph.D. Candidate, English, University of Notre Dame
M.A., English, North Carolina State University, 2009
B.A. History and English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005
Profile
Emily chose to be an English major because she found it the closest thing to majoring in everything (philosophy, theology, history, politics, psychology, art), and she specialized in Renaissance literature for more or less the same reason. Her research interests include Renaissance humanism, Reformation theology, English poetics, and Irish history, and she has dabbled in Latin, Greek, Spanish, French, Italian, Anglo-Saxon, and Irish. When she is not buried under mounds of books, Emily can be found hiking, painting, singing, and writing poetry of her own.
Recent (and forthcoming) Scholarly Activity
"Digesting Job in Paradise Lost." Studies in Philology, forthcoming.
"Opposing Tyranny with Style: Thomas More's Tyrannicida. Renaissance Society of America, 2012 meeting.
"The Man Who Would Be Saint: Literary Truth in More's Early Works." Renaissance Society of America,
2011 meeting.
"The Intersection of Poetry and Politics in More's Epigrammata." Moreana 47, December 2010.
"Spenser's Ruines of Ecclesiastes" to be presented at Kalamazoo, 2012.
Contact Info
300 O'Shaugnessy Hall (Office Hours)
205 Coleman Morse Center (Mailbox)
eransom@nd.edu
