Executive committee

Officers

President

Christopher D’Addario is Professor and Chair of English at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Urban Aesthetics in Early Modern London: The Invention of the Metaphysical (Cambridge, 2023) and Exile and Journey in Seventeenth-Century Literature (Cambridge, 2007). He is also the co-editor with Matthew Augustine of Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell (Manchester University Press, 2018). His essays have appeared in various journals, including Shakespeare Studies, ELH, Philological Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance, and The Huntington Library Quarterly. They have also been included in essay collections such as The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature (Oxford, 2024), Political Turmoil: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1623-1660 (Cambridge, 2018), The New Milton Criticism (Cambridge, 2012) and The Literatures of the Exile in the English Revolution and Its Aftermath (Ashgate, 2010). Contact him at [email protected]

Vice President

Julianne Werlin is an associate professor of English at Duke. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton. She is an early modernist with two major areas of interest: sociological and demographic approaches to literary history, and poetry and poetics. She is currently working on a project entitled English Renaissance Authors: A Demographic History. This is a prosopographic study of 615 early modern literary authors, situating them within demographic and economic trends including life expectancy, nuptiality, urbanization, and class mobility. 

Her work also examines connections between economic and literary history. Her first book, Writing at the Origin of Capitalism (Oxford) attempted to synthesize the findings of book history and early modern English economic history to show how market centralization shaped the production and circulation of books and manuscripts. 

 
Her essays and reviews have appeared in PMLA, SEL, RES, Milton Studies, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. She write about the relationship between demography, biography, and literary history at lifeandletters.substack.com. Contact her at [email protected]
 

Past President

Past President Blaine Greteman is Dean of the Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tulsa. His teaching and research focus on early modern book history, poetry, and drama, including Milton and Shakespeare; he’s also been a staff writer for Time magazine and continues to write for both scholarly and popular publications, including SlateThe Week, and The London Review of Books. His first book was The Poetics and Politics of Youth in Milton’s England (Cambridge, 2013) and his second was Networking Print in Shakespeare’s England (Stanford, 2021), which used the tools of network theory and analysis to examine early English print networks and to demonstrate the way changes in the communications system reshaped early modern literature, thought, and politics. Contact him at [email protected]

Secretary

Matthew Augustine teaches in the School of English at the University of St Andrews. He has been a member of the Marvell Society since 2010; his publications include Andrew Marvell: A Literary Life (2021) and the anniversary volume Imagining Andrew Marvell at 400 (2022), edited with Giulio J. Pertile and Steven N. Zwicker. Contact him at [email protected]

Editor of Marvell Studies

Ryan Netzley is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His research focuses on Renaissance lyric poetry, critical and poststructuralist theory, poetics and reading practices, and Reformation theology. His most recent book is Economies of Praise: Value, Labor, and Form in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry (Northwestern University Press, 2024), which examines conceptions of value in encomiastic and epideictic lyrics by Jonson, Donne, Marvell, Herbert, Vaughan, Traherne, Herrick, Bradstreet, Hutchinson, and Milton and their influence on modern notions of aesthetic and economic value. He is currently at work on a monograph project on the relationship between poetic form and ideas of social order in the seventeenth century. Contact him at [email protected]

 

Elected Members

  • Jahidul Alam (University of Louisiana Lafayette), 2024-2027
  • Stephen Hequembourg (Magen David Yeshivah), 2024-2027
  • Lottie Page (Princeton University), 2024-2027
  • Hyunyoung Cho (George Mason University), 2025-2028
  • Jonathan Koch (Pepperdine University), 2025-2028