Professor
University College


Teaching and Research Interests

Poetry, Prose and Drama 1640-1750.


Degrees

B.A., Ph.D. (London)


Publications

Articles on Richard Bentley, Edward Bernard, Samuel Butler, John Eachard, Henry Hammond, William King, John Pearson, Humphrey Prideaux, Anthony Scattergood, Sir Edward Sherburne and others in ODNB (2004);

"Politics and Scholarship in the Ignatian Controversy", SCen (1998); 

Editor, Lucy Hutchinson’s Translation of Lucretius "De rerum natura" (1996);

"Ease and Flow in Lucy Hutchinson’s Lucretius", SP (1996);

"Richard Bentley’s Spider-Web", IJCT (1994);

"Lucretius and Swift’s Tale of a Tub", UTQ (1994);

"St. Patrick’s Verses and Jonathan Swift", SStud (1994).


Current Research

Reception of classical texts 1600-1800. Bogus letters.