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Beth Quitslund

Beth Quitslund

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Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs; Professor of English
English
Provost’s Office
740.593.2829
Ellis 230, Cutler 314

Education

  • Ph.D. in English, University of California, Berkeley, 1997
  • A.B. in History & Literature, Harvard College, 1991

Courses Taught

  • ENG 2020: Introduction to Poetry and Drama
  • ENG 2510: British Literature I
  • ENG 3120: English Literature 1500 to 1650
  • ENG 3010: Shakespeare
  • ENG 4600: Choose Your Capstone Literature
  • ENG 4640: Milton
  • ENG 6130: Topics in Early Modern British Literature (including Devotional Literature)
  • ENG 6170/7170: Topics in Milton (including Paradise Lost and Its Fantastic Legacy)

Biography

Dr. Beth Quitslund is a Professor of English and currently serves as the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Ohio University. In this role, she is responsible for facilitating faculty processes, shared governance, and faculty professional development. This includes overseeing the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment and the Office of Instructional Design, and she has administrative responsibilities for the Chairs & Directors Council, Associate Deans Council, and the Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (TLA) Committee.

Previously, Dr. Quitslund served as Chair of the English Department and (twice) Interim Associate Dean of the Graduate College. Other roles and responsibilities during her time as OHIO faculty include stints as Faculty Senate Chair, Chair of the University Curriculum Council’s Individual Course Committee, and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Chairs & Directors Council, as well as Vice Chair of the state-wide Ohio Faculty Council.

She holds degrees in History & Literature (A.B.) from Harvard College and English (Ph.D.) from the University of California at Berkeley. Her scholarship focuses on the literature and culture of the English Renaissance and Protestant Reformation, with areas of interest in poetic form, Reformation liturgies and worship, Biblical translation, and mostly mediocre religious lyrics.

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Selected Awards and Fellowships

  • Konneker Fund for Learning and Discovery Grant for Reimagining OHIO’s General Education Program: Implementation & Assessment, Ohio University Foundation; co-investigator, 2020-22.
  • Mid-Atlantic Conference Academic Leadership Development Program Fellowship, 2017–18
  • Ohio University Chapman/Clapp Outstanding Advisor Award, 2015
  • Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship Grant, Calvin College, 2012–13
  • Folger Shakespeare Library Short-term Fellowship, 2010

Journal Article, Academic Journal (8)

  • Quitslund, B. (2019). “‘Without pity heare their dying grones”: Metrical Psalms and the Poetry of Sacred Violence.”. 3. Religion and Literature; 49: 152-62.
  • Quitslund, B. (2018). “‘A Second Bible’: Liturgy and Interpretation in the Expositions of John Boys.”. 1. Reformation; 23: 79-99.
  • Quitslund, B. (2015). Afterword: The Tudor Legacy. 4. Renaissance Studies; 29: 671-7.
  • Quitslund, B. (2005). “Teaching Us How To Sing?: The Peculiarity of the Sidney Psalter.”. Sindney Journal; 23: 83-110.
  • Quitslund, B. (2003). “Despair and the Composition of the Self.”. Spenser Studies; 17: 91-106.
  • Escobedo, A., Quitslund, B. (2003). “Introduction. Sage and Serious: Milton’s Chaste Original.”. 4. Milton Quarterly; 37: 179-83.
  • Quitslund, B. (2000). “Elizabethan Epideixis and the Spenserian Art of State Idolatry.”. 1. The European Legacy; 5: 29-48.
  • Quitslund, B. (1999). “Idologographies: Versions of Miltonic Iconoclasm.” [review essay]. 1. Milton Quarterly; 33: 22-7.

Book, Scholarly (2)

  • Quitslund, B., Temperley, N. (2018). The Whole Book of Psalms: A Critical Edition of the Texts and Tunes. 2 vols.. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Arizona State University Press); xlviii + 1096 pp.
  • Quitslund, B. (2008). The Reformation in Rhyme: Sternhold, Hopkins and the English Metrical Psalter, 1547–1603. Aldershot: Ashgate; x + 322.

Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book (7)

  • Quitslund, B. (2025). The Reformation. Routledge.
  • Quitslund, B. (2020). “Continuous Sellers and Their Buyers: A Brief Survey of Unknowns.”. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Arizona State University Press); IV: 149-160.
  • Quitslund, B. (2016). “Protestant Theology and Devotion.”. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 291-300.
  • Quitslund, B. (2014). Old Wine in New Boxes: Niche Bibles and the King James Version. Pittsburgh, PA: Dusquesne University Press.
  • Quitslund, B. (2013). The Psalm Book. Aldershot: Ashgate; 203-212.
  • Quitslund, B. (2012). "Singing the Psalms for Fun and Profit". Aldershot: Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain, Ashgate ; 237-58.
  • Quitslund, B. (2000). “Performing Reformation in the New World.”. Port of Spain: National Carnival Commission of Trinidad and Tobago.

Book, Non-Scholarly (1)

  • Quitslund, B. (2004). “The Virginia Company, 1609–1624: Anglicanism’s Millennial Adventure.”. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers; 43-114.

Other (4)

  • Quitslund, B. (2012). "Psalms and psalters, metrical". Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Quitslund, B. (2012). Psalms (Book of the Bible). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
  • Quitslund, B. (2012). Psalms 1-8. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
  • Quitslund, B. (2008). “The Whole Book of Psalms Collected into English Meter (a.k.a. ‘Sternhold and Hopkins’).”. New York, NY: Facts on File; 464-5.

Published Book Review (12)

  • Quitslund, B. (2022). Review of Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth Century England . 1. Online: The Spenser Review; 52: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/review/item/52.1.10/.
  • Quitslund, B. (2018). Review of Singing the Resurrection: Body, Community, and Belief in Reformation Europe, Erin Lambert. 3. Sixteenth Century Journal; 49: 898-900.
  • Quitslund, B. (2017). Review of Kenneth J. E. Graham, Disciplinary Measures from the Metrical Psalms to Milton, (London: Routledge, 2016).. 3. Modern Philology; 115: [3 pp].
  • Quitslund, B. (2016). Review of Picturing Religious Experience. George Herbert, Calvin, and the scriptures, by Daniel W. Doerksen. (Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 2011; paperback 2013).. 2. Journal of Ecclesiastical History; 67: 435-6.
  • Quitslund, B. (2014). Daniel Swift, Shakespeare's Common Prayers. 2. Chicago: Modern Philology; 112: E168-E171.
  • Quitslund, B. (2014). Clare Costley King'oo, Miserere Mei. 3. Chicago, IL: Renaissance Quarterly; 67: 1036-37.
  • Quitslund, B. (2013). Gordon Campbell, Bible: The Story of the King James Version and Gordon Campbell, ed., The Holy Bible: Quatercentenary Edition. 1. Milton Quarterly; 47: 48-50.
  • Quitslund, B. (2012). Christopher Marsh, Music and Society in Early Modern Britain. 2. Renaissance Studies; 26: 314-316.
  • Quitslund, B. (2011). "The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume II. The 1671 Poems: Paradise Regain’d and Samson Agonistes. Ed. Laura Knoppers." [review]. 2. Sixteenth Century Journal; 42: 582-4.
  • Quitslund, B. (2010). "The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace--Brian Cummings" [review]. 1. Religious Studies Review; 36: p. 85. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1748-0922.2010.01406_20.x/full.
  • Quitslund, B. (2006). Review of Hannibal Hamlin, Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).. 3. Milton Quarterly; 40: 250-1.
  • Quitslund, B. (2000). “The Divine Right to Bear Arms,” Review of Michael Lieb, Children of Ezekiel: Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End Time. (Durham: Duke, 1998). 4. Milton Quarterly; 34: 129-31.