John Watkins

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Awards
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D.: English, Yale University, 1990 -

Specialties

• historiography
• sovereignty and queenship
• medieval and early modern diplomacy
• premodern political culture
• classical and medieval origins of the Renaissance
• Mediterranean Studies

Publications

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Publications

• The Specter of Dido: Spenser and Virgilian Epic. Yale University Press, Watkins, John, 1995.
• ““˜Old Bess in the Ruff’: Remembering Elizabeth I, 1625-1660“: Watkins, John, English Literary Renaissance, 2002.
• Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England: Literature, History, and Sovereignty. Cambridge University Press, Watkins, John, 2002.
• Shakespeare and the Middle Ages. Co-edited with Curtis Perry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Shakespeare’s Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age. Carole Levin, Cornell University Press, Watkins, John, 2009.
• BOOKS
• ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
• “Toward a New Diplomatic History of Medieval and Early Modern Europe.“ : Watkins, John, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 38 , 1-14, 2008.
• "Towards a New History of Medieval and Early Modern Diplomacy.": Watkins, John, The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
• “Elizabeth Through Venetian Eyes.“ Explorations in Renaissance Culture. Watkins, John, 2004.
• “Marriage í  la Mode 1559: Elizabeth I, Elisabeth de Valois, and the Changing Patterns of Diplomatic Marriage.“ : University of Nebraska Press, Watkins, John, Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England, 2009.
• “Spenser’s Poetry and the Apocalypse.“ Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion.. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Watkins, John, 2007.
• ““˜Out of Her Ashes May a Second Phoenix Rise’: James I and the Legacy of Elizabethan Anti-Catholicism.“ : Macmillan, Watkins, John, Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern England , 1999.
• “The Allegorical Theatre: Moralities, Interludes, and Protestant Drama.“ : Cambridge University Press, Watkins, John, Cambridge History of Medieval Literature, 1999.
• Mediterranean Identities in the Premodern Era: Islands, Entrepôts, Empire. Co-edited with Kathryn L. Reyerson. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014.
• Spenser’s Monsters: A Response to Maik Goth: Watkins, John, Connotations, 20.2-3, 1-9, 2010-11.
• Peacemaking, Interdynastic Marriage, and the Rise of the French Novel: Watkins, John, Common Knowledge, 22.2, 256-76, 2016.
• After Lavinia: A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy. Cornell University Press, Watkins, John, 2017.

Awards

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Awards

• University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Scholar of the College, 2004 - 2007
• Arthur “Red“ Motley Exemplary Teaching Award, 2006
• University of Minnesota Morse-Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education , 2004
• Ruth Christie Award for Excellence in Teaching English, 1996
• McKnight Distinguished University Professorship, 2010 - present
• American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship, 2007 - 2008
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2014 - 2015
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2014

Courses

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Courses

• Stuart England: The Century of Revolution
• Queenship in Early Modern France and England
• Milton and Tasso
• The Apocalypse: A Cultural History
• British History from the Beginnings to the Glorious Revolution (History)
• Early Modern Britain (History)
• Renaissance Lyric
• Spenser
• Epic
• Elizabeth I
• Cultures of the Italian Renaissance: Florence, Rome, Venice
• Shakespeare
• Survey of British Literatures and Culture
• Families in Epics and Novels
• Early Modern Literature and Culture
• Mediterranean Literature and Culture