Samuel Smith at the London Globe Theatre, 2008 |
WELCOME Welcome to my Messiah College faculty homepage! I teach courses in Shakespeare, Milton, and other Early Modern British Literature. I earned a PhD in English from the University of Delaware, but I’ve also participated in two Folger Shakespeare Institute Seminars (“Milton and Scripture,” with Mary Ann Radzinowicz, and “Petitioners, Preachers, and Prophets in the Age of Charles I,” with Esther Cope) and an NEH Summer Seminar on “Renaissance and Reformation in Tudor-Stuart England” (University of Chicago, with Richard Strier). I have received the Robert and Marilyn Smith Award for Outstanding Teaching at Messiah and an Excellence in Teaching Award. My current research interests include Milton’s theological imagination, Shakespeare’s skepticism, and the impact of summer stream currents on tubing long stretches of Stony Creek. |
A native central Pennsylvanian, I enjoy hiking the Appalachian Trail (only ten minutes from home), playing electric blues guitar, getting an education in contemporary pop culture from my delightful daughters, and enjoying tea with my best conversation partner, Rebecca Buckham. Every now and then I visit my second home, Scotland, where I hike the mountains of Glencoe, admire the stonecarvings of Gardner Molloy, and occasionally hobnob with Glaswegian pedestrians who write entertaining fictions and paint fascinating murals inside churches converted to pubs.
Professionally, I'm currently working on John Milton's representation of the regenerate Christian in Paradise Regained, Hamlet's Stoicism, and book review essays for Milton Quarterly and Kritikon Litterarum
Contact Information |
| Office: | Boyer 210 |
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(717) 766-2511, ext. 7052 |
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| Address: | Messiah College Department of English Suite 3017 Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 |
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(717) 796-4790 |
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| Email: | ssmith@messiah.edu | |||
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Last updated 08/30/11 |