Thomas H. Luxon

Cheheyl Professor and Director
Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning
Professor of English

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1984

6247 Baker Library
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

thomas.h.luxon@dartmouth.edu

While I presently focus on early modern literature and puritanism, I also teach Shakespeare, critical theory in Comparative Literature, as well as courses in Women's Studies and Jewish Studies. I have a particular interest in advanced technology in teaching and research in the humanities.

Courses

Poetry and Prose of John Milton (English 28), Shakespeare I (English 24), Critical Theory (Comparative Literature 72), The Merchant of Venice (Jewish Studies 40), advanced seminars in Milton, and Poetry and Prose of the Seventeenth Century (English 27).

Selected Publications

• Single Imperfection: Milton, Marriage and Friendship. Pittsburgh, PA:  Duquesne University Press,  2005.
• “One Soul vs. One Flesh: Friendship, Marriage, and the Puritan Self” in Trauma and Transformation: John Bunyan and the Birth of the Modern Self, ed. Vera Camden.  Forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
• “Milton and the Web” in Laura Lunger Knoppers & Gregory M. Colon Semenza, eds. Milton and Popular Culture.  New York: Macmillan Palgrave, 2005.
• "Humanist Marriage and the Comedy of Errors." Renaissance and Reformation, New Series 25, (2001, pub. 2003): 45-65.
• "Milton's 'Wedded Love': Not About Sex (as we know it)." Milton Studies 40 (2001): 38-60.
• "A Second Daniel: The Jew and the "True Jew" in The Merchant of Venice." Early Modern Literary Studies 4.3 (January, 1999): 1-31 (http://purl.oclc.org/emls/04-3/luxoshak.html).
• "Rough Trade: Milton as Ajax in the Place of Punishment." Prose Studies: Literature, History, Theory 19 (1996): 282-91.
• Literal Figures: Puritan Allegory and the Reformation Crisis in Representation. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995.
• The Milton Reading Room. A Web Edition of Milton's Poetry and Selected Prose.