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Department of English
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Dr. Brooke Conti Department of English Education: Ph.D., English, Yale University, 2005 |  |
Research Interests:
Dr. Conti’s research interests center on the literature, politics, and religion of seventeenth-century Britain. She has published articles on Milton’s political tracts, Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici. She is currently revising a book manuscript on the intersection of religion and autobiography in seventeenth-century prose, as well as working on a scholarly edition of Religio Medici. Other projects include an essay on the language of mechanical automation in Early Modern discussions of religious experience and an essay on Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica.
Awards and Honors:
James M. Osborn Fellowship in English Literature and History, Beinecke Rare
Book and Manuscript Library, winter 2008-09
Pforzheimer Fellowship, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 2008
United University Professions Individual Development Grant, 2007
Brockport Scholarly Incentive Grant, 2006
Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Fellowship, 2005
Paul Mellon Centre Summer Traveling Grant, 2004
John F. Enders Research Grant, 2004
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Graduate Fellowship, 2002
Publications:
- Articles and Book Chapters
“Religio Medici’s Profession of Faith,” in Reid Barbour and Claire Preston, eds., Sir Thomas Browne Quartercentenary Essays. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 149-67.
“Sir Thomas Browne’s Annotated Copy of His 1642 Religio Medici.” Princeton University Library Chronicle 67:3 (Spring 2006), 595-610.
“ ‘That Really Too Anxious Protestation’: Crisis and Autobiography in Milton’s Prose,” Milton Studies 45 (2006), 149–86.
“Donne, Doubt and the Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions,” John Donne Journal 22 (2003), 145–64.
- Shorter Essays
“The Devotions: Popular and Critical Reception.” John Donne Journal 26 (2007), 365-72.
“Ellison’s Rinehart and Count Basie’s: Invisible Man and ‘Harvard Blues.’” Notes & Queries 54:2 (June 2007), 181-83.
- Reviews
Review of Sharon Cadman Seelig, Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature. Forthcoming in Modern Philology 106:2 (November 2008).
Review of Laura Lunger Knoppers and Gregory M. Colón Semenza, eds., Milton in Popular Culture. Journal of British Studies 46:4 (October 2007), 922-24.
Professional Service:
Executive Board Member, John Donne Society
Organizer, Greater Rochester Early Modern Reading Group
Courses Taught at Brockport:
Milton and Revolution
The British Renaissance
Sex and Gender in the Renaissance
Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances
Shakespeare: Histories and Tragedies
British Literature I: Beginnings to 1700
Introduction to Literary Analysis (“Life During Wartime”)
College Composition (“Sex, Politics, and Religion”)
