James Biester

Title/s:  Professor Emeritus

Office #:  Crown Center 479

Phone: 773.508.2793

Email: jbieste@luc.edu

About

My scholarly interests range from the history of literary theory and the history of rhetoric to modern poetry, but the main focus of my work has been early modern literature and culture, particularly the literature and culture of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. After devoting much of my earlier attention to the production of wonder in lyric poetry, I have more recently focused on intersections between elite and popular culture, and on the representation of magic. I have taught graduate seminars as well as undergraduate courses on those topics, and also frequently teach introductory courses in poetry and in Shakespeare. My teaching for English majors is usually devoted to the study of sixteenth and seventeenth-century poetry and prose.

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