Visiting Professor
Department of English
241 Lake Huron Hall
(616) 331-3024
[email protected]
Daniel Knapper
Courses
ENG 112 Much Ado About Shakespeare
ENG 220 British Literature I
ENG 313 British Literature: Shakespeare
Research Interests
Renaissance/early modern literature
Shakespeare and adaptation
Reformation literary culture
The Bible in/and/as literature
The history of style and rhetoric
Recent Publications
Books
Pauline Style and Renaissance Literary Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Articles
“Biblical Prophecy and Political Counsel in Shakespeare’s Richard II and Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Henry VIII (All Is True).” English Literary Renaissance 54.2 (Spring 2024).
“Prophetic Style and Isaian Exceptionalism in Reformation Rhetoric and Theology.” Sixteenth Century Journal 54.1-2 (Spring 2024).
“Thunderings, Not Words: Aspects of Pauline Style in Pericles and The Winter’s Tale.” Shakespeare Studies 47 (2019), 169-204.
“In Praise of Bad Prose: Reading Pauline Style in the Reformation.” Renaissance Studies 33.2 (April 2019), 281-298.
Editorial Work
Comparative Drama, a quarterly journal of drama, theatre, and performance studies.
Education
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
M.A., University of Virginia
B.A., Calvin University