Patrick Timmis
- Delp 301
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“Mark in my heart, O soul, where thou dost dwell,— John Donne, Holy Sonnet 9
The picture of Christ crucified”
Faculty Information
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Education
Ph.D., Duke University, 2021
M.A., University of Virginia, 2014
B.A., Hillsdale College, 2013
Scholarship
Co-editor (with Brad Littlejohn & Brian Marr) of The Word Made Flesh for Us: A Treatise on Christology and the Sacraments, forthcoming in Davenant Press’s Library of Early English Protestantism series (April 2024). This is the first in a planned multi-volume modernized student edition of Richard Hooker’s seminal work on Anglican worship, Book V of The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.
“John Bunyan” in The Imagination’s Journey to God: A Handbook of Literary Apologetics, Thomas Martin ed., forthcoming with De Gruyter
“Archbishop Caiaphas: the medieval stage-tyrant in the Elizabethan ‘Martin Marprelate’ controversy,” forthcoming in the Ben Jonson Journal 31.2 (2024)
“John Donne as poetic model in Moby Dick,” Notes and Queries 70.4 (2023), 296-298
“John Donne in the Hague & the Hague at the Globe: Performing Reformation England’s Religio-Political Doctrine of Perseverance,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 53.2 (2023), 405-432
“The ‘Puritan’ Preacher and The Puritan Widow,” Studies in Philology 120.1 (2023), 104-140
“Undermining the elect nation: King Lear and the Hebrew patriarchs at the court of James I,” Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, 43.3 (2020), 105-133
“Sanctifying Rites in Milton’s A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634,” Christianity & Literature, 68.2 (2019), 193-212
“No/Any faithful man doubts”: Intentional Puritan mistranslations of Ratramnus of Corbie?” Notes and Queries, 66.2 (2019), 225-227
“Saturn and Soliloquy: Henryson’s Conversation with Chaucerian Free Will,” The Chaucer Review, 51.4 (2016), 453-468
I write primarily on the literature of the long English Reformation, but I am also a generalist and teach a range of courses that includes great texts surveys of epic poetry from Genesis to Moby Dick, seminars on the scholarly imagination of C.S. Lewis, and an introduction to St. Augustine’s pedagogical thought. I am a licensed Reader and Catechist in the Anglican Diocese of the Living Word.