Full-Time Faculty

Patrick Cook
Ph.D. 1990, University of California, Berkeley

Patrick Cook’s research and teaching interests include Milton, early modern European literature, classical and biblical humanities, literary theory, and film adaptation. He is currently completing a book-length study of filmed versions of Hamlet.

Book:

Milton, Spenser, and the Epic Tradition. Ashgate, 1996.

Other Publications:

“Medieval Hamlet in Performance.” Medieval Shakespeare in Performance. Ed. Martha Driver and Sid Ray. New York: McFarland. 2007.

“Beggary/Buggery and Oedipal Conflict in Thomas Middleton’s The Phoenix.” Early Modern Literary Studies 12.2 (September 2006).

“The Ecloga Theoduli: A Carolingian Textbook for Cultural Literacy.” Medieval Children’s Literature. Ed. Daniel T. Kline. New York: Garland. 2003.

“Teaching the Aeneid with Milton’s Paradise Lost.” Approaches to Teaching Vergil’s Aeneid. Ed. William S. Anderson and Lorina Quartarone. New York: Modern Language Association of America. 2002.

“Aemilia Lanyer’s ‘Description of Cooke-ham’ as Devotional Lyric.” Discovering and Recovering the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric. Ed. Eugene Cunnar and Jeffrey Johnson. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 2001.