Matthew Stallard

Scholarly Focus

• English Renaissance
• Protestant Reformation
• History of the English Language
• English Bible
• John Milton
• William Shakespeare

Publications

John Milton, Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition. Macon: Mercer UP, 2011. 600 pages. ISBN: 978-0881462364

John Milton, Paradise Regained and the Minor Poems: The Biblically Annotated Edition. Forthcoming.

Reading Scripture in Seventeenth-Century England: The Religious Beliefs of John Milton. In progress.

Review of Kevin Killeen’s Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England: Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge, Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 35.1 (2011): 61-63.

Review of Timothy Hodor’s The Crowd of Time, Quarter After Eight, Vol. 9, 2003.

Positions

• Ohio University Associate Professor of English, 2016-present
• Ohio University Assistant Professor of English, 2010-15
• Ohio University First Year Council Committee, 2014-18
• Ohio University Department of English Graduate Placement Committee, 2014-present
• Ohio University Department of English Composition Committee, 2013-14
• Ohio University Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2008-10
• College of Arts and Sciences Scholars Program Faculty, 2008-12
• Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference Advisory Board, 2008-09
• John F. Cady Doctoral University Fellowship, 2007-08
• English Collection Library Acquisitions Assistant, 2004-06
• Assistant Editor, Milton Quarterly, 2003-04
• AWA Fiction Book of the Year Selection Committee, 2003
• Book Review Editor, Quarter After Eight, 2003

Selected Conference Presentations

“Echoing Ethos: Paradise Lost and 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible,” The Bible in the Seventeenth Century: The Authorised Version Quatercentenary (1611-2011); Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies University of York, United Kingdom, July 2011

“The Elephant in the Room: Milton’s Negotiation of Trinitarian Christology in Paradise Lost and the 1611 King James Bible,” The King James Bible and Its Cultural Afterlife: The Bible and Early Modern Radicals (Milton, Bunyon, and Others); Ohio State University, May 2011

“The Holy Spirit in Paradise Lost Books XI and XII,” 2009 Conference on John Milton; Middle Tennesee State University, October 2009

“‘The Blast of War Blows in Our Ears’: Henry V and the Rhetoric of the Just War Tradition,” The Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference; Ohio University, October 2009

”Paradise Lost and the 1560 Geneva Bible: The Necessity of Negotiating Milton’s Scriptural Contexts,” Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXIII; The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, September 2009

“‘Speaking a word in season’: The Rise of Protestant Print Culture, the Decline of Rhetoric, and the Emergence of Plain Style,” Invited Talk; The Chesnutt Reading Series in Honor of Dean McWilliams, Ohio University, May 2008

“The Bower of Tranquility: The Role of Violence in Romeo and Juliet,” Violently Shakespeare: The 2006 Ohio Shakespeare Conference; Marietta College, November 2006

“Guglielma and the Guglielmites: Heresy and Gender in the Thirteenth Century,” Medievalism and the Marvelous:The 21st International Conference on Medievalism; The Ohio State University, October 2006

“Langland’s Natural Theology: Trinitarian Discourse in Piers Plowman,” Medieval-Renaissance Conference XX; The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, September 2006

“‘The Shape of Nature’: Shakespeare’s Natural Theology in Twelfth Night,” Icons and Iconoclasts: The Long Seventeenth Century; Centre for Early Modern Studies at University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, July 2006

“‘In the straits of time’: Shaping Character in 1Henry IV,” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters; Oakland University, March 2006

“‘Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind’: Rhetorical Seduction in Comus,” 2005 Conference on John Milton; Middle Tennesee State University, October 2005

“What Time of Day Is It Lad?: Time as Character in Shakespeare’s 1HenryIV” West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Conference; Bethany College, May 2005

“Saint Peter’s Anglo-Saxon: The Reformation Voice in Milton’s Lycidas,” The International Milton Congress: Milton in Context; Duquesne University, March 2004

“The ‘Two-Handed Engine’ of Lycidas as Christ’s Second Advent,” 2003 Conference on John Milton; Middle Tennesee State University, October 2003

“Miltonic Resonance in John Fox’s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine: Appalachia Lost,” Annual Conference of the Appalachian Writer’s Association (AWA); Cumberland College, July 2003

“‘Appalachian-American’ as Transnational Identity,” Annual Convention of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association; Atlanta, 2003

Professional Associations

• The Milton Society of America
• The William Tyndale Society
• Modern Language Association of America
• South Atlantic Modern Language Association
• National Council of Teachers of English
• Appalachian Writers Association
• Michigan Academy of Arts and Letters