Adjunct Professor of English
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8125

E-mail: NorthropD@ripon.edu

Personal web page

Education

• Ph.D. - The University of Chicago
• M.A. - The University of Chicago
• B.A. - Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut

Awards and Honors

• Severy Award for excellence in teaching, 1965-66
• Uhrig Award for excellence in teaching, 1970-71
• Honorary Degree, DHL, Ripon College, 2000

Areas of Interest

• English Renaissance literature, especially Spenser and Shakespeare
• Investigating the developing concepts of courtesy
• 18th century novels by, for, and about women

Recent Publications

• The Spenser Encyclopedia (1990), adviser.
• "The Ende Therfore of a Perfect Courtier in Baldassare Castiglione's The Courtier." Philological Quarterly 77(1999):295-305.
• "The Uncertainty of Courtesy in Book VI of The Faerie Queene" Spenser Studies 14(2000):215-32.
• Review:R.A. Horton, The Unity of "The Faerie Queene." Modern Philology 78(1984):306-8.
• Review:Patrick J. Cook. Milton, Spenser and the Epic Tradition. Renaissance Quarterly 51(1998):700-1.
• Review:Elizibeth Clarke, Theory and Theology in George Herbert's Poetry: "Divine, and Poesie, Met." Renaissance Quarterly 52(1999):1192-3.
• Review: Peter DeSa Wiggins, Donne, Castiglione and the Poetry of Courtliness. Renaissance Quarterly 55(2002): 1114-1115.

Current Courses Taught

• English 175, Literary Love