Notes on Contributors
George Core
(1939–2023) taught in the English Departments of UNC-Chapel Hill, Davidson College, and the University of Georgia (with editing responsibilities at the University of Georgia Press), before arriving at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1973. He replaced Andrew Lytle as the editor of The Sewanee Review, the oldest continuously published quarterly in the United States, dating back to 1892; he exercised that role through 43 years and 171 successive issues. He introduced to The Sewanee Review short book reviews and oversaw the magazine’s annual selection of the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. In 2015, Core was awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and also received an honorary degree from the University of the South.
Paul Dominiak
is Senior Tutor and Fellow in Theology at Jesus College in the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Richard Hooker. The Architecture of Participation (T&T Clark, 2019), has contributed to several essay collections on early modern and doctrinal theology, and has had books published on spirituality.
William E. Engel
is the Nick B. Williams Professor of Literature at the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee. In addition to having published dozens of articles, chapters in volumes, and encyclopedia entries on Reformation themes and figures, he is the author of six books on literary history and applied mnemonics including, most recently, The Printer as Author in Early Modern Book History: John Day and the Fabrication of a Protestant Memory Art (Routledge, 2022); and has co-edited The Shakespearean Death Arts: Hamlet among the Tombs (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England (Cambridge University Press, 2022), as well as two critical anthologies, The Memory Arts in Renaissance England (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and The Death Arts in Renaissance England (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Lori Anne Ferrell
FRHistS, is Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities and Louis and Mildred Benezet Chair in Humanities at Claremont Graduate University, California, where she directs both the Early Modern Studies Program and is Director of the Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards. She is most recently editor of volume 11 of The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne (Oxford University Press, 2016), and has published in journals such as the Huntington Library Quarterly and Renaissance Quarterly.
Benjamin M. Guyer
is a lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Martin and author of How the English Reformation was Named: The Politics of History, c. 1400–1700 (Oxford University Press, 2022). A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a council member of the Sixteenth Century Society, he has published multiple book chapters and journal articles.
Scott N. Kindred-Barnes
(PhD, University of Toronto, 2011) is the Senior Minister of Canada’s oldest continuing Baptist Church located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Before moving to Wolfville in 2018, Scott served as the Minister of First Baptist Church, Ottawa for seven years. He has served as the convenor of the Richard Hooker Society since 2008. Scott has written and co-edited several books and articles on Richard Hooker including the co-edited volume with Daniel Graves titled Richard Hooker and the Christian Virtues (Brill, 2024). Scott has also taught Reformation history and theology at Toronto School of Theology and Trinity College, University of Toronto. He recently became a denominational representative at Acadia’s Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies (ACBAS).
Torrance Kirby
is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and sometime Director of the Centre for Research on Religion at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He received a DPhil degree in Modern History from the University of Oxford in 1988. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a life member of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and McCord Fellow of the Princeton Center of Theological Inquiry. Recent books include Persuasion and Conversion: Religion, Politics and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England (2013), The Zurich Connection and Tudor Political Theology (2007), and Richard Hooker, Reformer and Platonist (2005). He is also the editor of A Companion to Richard Hooker (2008), and co-editor of Paul’s Cross and the Culture of Persuasion, 1520–1640 (2014). His most recent book is an edition of selected Sermons at Paul’s Cross, 1521–1642 (Oxford, 2017).
Diarmaid MacCulloch
DD, FBA, FRHistS, FSA, FRSL, Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, and of Campion Hall, Oxford, and prize-winning author, has written extensively on the sixteenth century and beyond it. His History of Christianity: The first three thousand years (Allen Lane/Viking) and the BBC TV series based on it first appeared in 2009; the book won the Cundill Prize, then the world’s largest prize for history, in 2010. His three-part TV series for BBC2, How God made the English, aired in March 2012. His Silence: A Christian History appeared in 2013 and his collected essays on the Reformation were published as All Things New: Writings on the Reformation in 2016. His Thomas Cromwell: a Life appeared in 2018, and in 2024, Lower than the Angels: A history of sex and Christianity (of which his TV series of 2015 was a foretaste). He was knighted in the UK New Year’s Honours List of 2012.
James Ross Macdonald
is Professor of English at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. His essays have appeared in Studies in Philology, Spenser Studies, Ben Jonson Journal, and SEL, as well as in several edited collections.
Anthony Milton
is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professor of History at the University of Sheffield. His publications include: Catholic and Reformed: The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant Thought; The British Delegation and the Synod of Dort (1618–19); Laudian and royalist polemic in seventeenth-century England; and (most recently) England’s Second Reformation: the Battle for the Church of England 1625–62. He also edited volume 1 of The Oxford History of Anglicanism.
David Neelands
(ThD, Trinity College and University of Toronto, 1988), is Dean Emeritus of Divinity and Fellow at Trinity College, University of Toronto. His research has dealt with the reception of Augustine of Hippo, especially in St. Anselm, the reception of Lutheranism into the formularies of the Church of England, and on the scholastic theology of Richard Hooker. His recent publications include various articles and chapters on Richard Hooker and his contemporaries in England.
Peter B. Nockles
was until his retirement in September 2016 a librarian and curator in the Department of Rare Books & Maps, Special Collections, in the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester. He remains an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Arts, Languages & Cultures, University of Manchester. Author of The Oxford Movement in Context (Cambridge University Press, 1994), he has also written numerous essays and articles. He edited and contributed to Reinventing the Reformation in the Nineteenth Century, a special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library (Volume 90.1, Spring 2014). He co-edited The Oxford Movement, Europe and the Wider World, 1833–1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and was one of three editors of The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement (Oxford University Press, 2017). A popular international lecturer, he received the Gaillot Award in 2020 for his contribution to Newman Studies.
George Poe
joined the faculty at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1987, after teaching at Davidson College and Hanover College. He chaired Sewanee’s Department of French from 1994 to 2000 and served as the department’s study abroad advisor throughout his career, establishing summer and semester programmes in France. Poe was named the Sewanee ‘Teacher of the Year’ in 2004 and 2017 and held the University’s endowed ‘Class of 1961 Chair of the College.’ The Carnegie Foundation and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education recognised him as the 2006 U.S. Professor of the Year for the state of Tennessee. He has authored a book on French rococo literature, coedited a book on the French novel, and contributed to multiple journals and books, having been awarded The Sewanee Review’s Heilman Prize for Excellence in Book Reviewing in 2014.
Margo Todd
is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of British History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent books are the prize-winning Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland and an edition of the Perth Kirk Session Books, 1577–1590 for the Scottish History Society. Her earlier publications are for the most part in English history and include Christian Humanism and the Puritan Social Order and articles on subjects ranging from theological divisions in early modern Cambridge University, to the experiences of English pirate captives, to legal arbitration in the British Isles.
Nicholas Tyacke
is currently an honorary professor of history at University College London, where he taught for forty-one years. His more recent publications include an edited volume on The English Revolution c.1590–1720: Politics, Religion and Communities (Manchester, 2007) and (co-authored with Kenneth Fincham) Altars Restored: the Changing Face of English Religious Worship, 1547–c.1700 (Oxford, 2007). He edited the seventeenth-century volume in the History of the University of Oxford series and remains active in that field, as well as continuing to pursue the subject of his original research on the subject of English Arminianism. An essay on the Lambeth Articles of 1595 was published in the English Historical Review, volume 137, for 2022. During the last decade he has also become very interested in the politico-religious dimension of Puritanism and especially the concept of ‘Christian Liberty.’
John N. Wall
is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at North Carolina State University. His publications include Transformations of the Word: Spenser, Herbert, Vaughan (Georgia, 1988) and an edition of George Herbert’s The Temple and The Country Parson (Paulist Press, 1981). He has contributed to multiple essay collections and journals, including The Journal of Digital Humanities, Studies in Philology, Renaissance Papers, and Anglican and Episcopal History. He served as co-Principal Investigator for the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Virtual Paul’s Cross Project and Virtual St. Paul’s Cathedral Project. Recipient of the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence by the NC State Board of Trustees (2003), and the Outstanding Humanist Award by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State University (2018), he was awarded a Doctor of Divinity (honoris causa) by the Virginia Episcopal Theological Seminary (2018), elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2022, and the Royal Society of Literature in 2023.