William M. Russell - Department of English - College of Charleston- Department of English - College of Charleston- Department of English - College of Charleston- Department of English - College of Charleston- Department of English - College of Charleston- Department of English

William M. Russell, Assistant Professor

Areas of interest		Contact Information
- Renaissance literature and culture - Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England - Rhetoric, poetics, and the history of criticism - Humanism and classical reception		72 George Street, #100 (843) 953-4959 russellw {at} cofc.edu
Profile William Russell received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina and joined the faculty at the College of Charleston in 2009. He teaches courses on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature. Currently, he is writing a book on the social and intellectual origins of the idea of the literary critic in early modern England.
Selected Recent or Forthcoming Publications “‘Out of the Binder’s Hand’: Love, Chaos, and Marvell’s Elegy for Cromwell,” forthcoming in English Literary Renaissance. “‘Spell it Wrong to Read it Right’: Crashaw’s Assessment of Human Language,” forthcoming in the John Donne Journal. “Jonson, Lipsius, and Muret: A Marginal Adjustment,” forthcoming in Notes and Queries.