Alex Block

116 Vaughan Literature
(570) 577-3020
alex.block@bucknell.edu

Alex Block (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) teaches Renaissance literature. Her current research focuses on the period's non-dramatic literature, especially Renaissance lyric poetry; on theology; and on adaptation and intertextuality. She's also interested in lyric poetry as transhistorical genre.

Teaching Interests

Renaissance, John Donne.

Selected Publications

"Eucharistic Semiotics and the Representational Formulae of Donne's Ambassadors, in Renaissance Tropologies: The Cultural Imagination of Early Modern England, ed. Jeanne Shami, forthcoming from Duquesne University Press.

"Argument and 'Representation' in The Faerie Queene, Book III," co-authored with Eric Rothstein, Spenser Studies 19 (2004): 177-207.