Peter C. Herman, PhD

Peter C. Herman received his PhD in 1990 from Columbia University. He has published three books: Royal Poetrie: Monarchic Verse and the Political Imaginary of Early Modern England (Cornell University Press, 2010) Destabilizing Milton: Paradise Lost and the Poetics of Incertitude (Palgrave, 2005), and Squitter-wits and Muse-haters: Sidney, Spenser, Milton and Renaissance Antipoetic Sentiment (Wayne State University Press, 1996), as well as edited a number of anthologies, including Approaches to Teaching Milton's Shorter Poetry and Prose ( MLA, 2007), Historicizing Theory (SUNY Press, 2004), and Reading Monarchs Writing: The Poetry of Henry VIII, Mary, Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I (MRTS, 2002). His essays have appeared in Renaissance Quarterly, SEL, and Criticism, as well as in various collections, such as Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World, ed. Robert Appelbaum and John Sweet, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), and Royal Subjects: Essays on the Writings of James VI and I, ed. Daniel Fischlin and Mark Fortier (Wayne State University Press, 2002).