The Directory of Research and Researchers at Brown: Richard Rambuss

Professor Rambuss's principal historical field is sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and culture. He's most interested in Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser, and the metaphysical poets (especially Donne, Herbert, and Crashaw); devotional texts and images; and the baroque. He also works on film and photography. Kubrick is a particular enthusiasm. Questions about gender, sexuality, and desire--particularly male desire--tend to preoccupy him, whether he's studying movies or Renaissance poetry.

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Before coming to Brown in the Fall of 2011, Professor Richard Rambuss taught at Emory University for 15 years, where he had a joint appointment in English and Comparative Literature. He chaired the English Department at Emory from 2009-11. He was the visiting Hudson Strode Professor of Early Modern Studies at the University of Alabama in Spring 2009.

Professor Rambuss earned his BA at Amherst and his PhD in English from Johns Hopkins, where he specialized in Renaissance literature. He is the author of two books: Closet Devotions (Duke, 1998) and Spenser's Secret Career (Cambridge, 1993; paperback 2006). His new critical edition of Richard Crashaw's English poetry will be published in 2013 by the University of Minnesota Press. His essays and reviews have appeared in ELH, Camera Obscura, SAQ, boundary 2, Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Quarterly, Exemplaria, and GLQ, in addition to many critical anthologies, including a piece on A Midsummer Night's Dream in Shakesqueer. He has lectured at universities and colleges across the U.S., as well as in Canada, England, Ireland, and Europe.

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RICHARD RAMBUSS, PhD, Johns Hopkins University; MA, Johns Hopkins University; BA, Amherst College
Professor of English
English
Phone: +1 401 863 3732
E-mail: Richard_Rambuss@Brown.edu

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