See below for information on the MRRS Committee
Katie Calloway is interested in the relationships between literature, science, and theology in seventeenth-century England. She has a secondary interest in early modern English reception of Latin poetry. Her work appears in journals such as Milton Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation, Milton Studies, and Studies in Philology, and her first book, Natural Theology in the Scientific Revolution, was published by Pickering and Chatto. Her second book, Literature and Natural Theology in Early Modern England, appears with Cambridge University Press in 2023.
Hope Johnston’s research focuses on the literature of medieval and early modern Britain. Her areas of interest include the history of the book, vernacular translation, women’s writing, and Chaucer reception studies. Hope is the editor of Christine de Pizan’s sixteenth-century Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes, translated by Brian Anslay, for the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies Series (2014). Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Studies in Bibliography, Journal of the Early Book Society, and Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society.
Sebastian Langdell works primarily on later medieval literature. His areas of research interest include: Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, Dante and Dantean reception, William Langland, Christine de Pizan, the interplay between poetry and religious writing, modes of poetic authority, autofiction, and transnational literary exchange.
His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in: New Medieval Literatures, Medium Aevum, Augustinian Studies, Notes & Queries, The Oxford History of Poetry in English, Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches, and the Routledge Companion to Medieval Literature in a Trans-European Context. His first book, Thomas Hoccleve: Religious Reform, Transnational Poetics, and the Invention of Chaucer, was published in 2018 in the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies Series (Liverpool University Press). He is currently at work on a new critical edition of Thomas Hoccleve’s shorter poems, which will appear in the same series. This edition is supported by fellowships from the Huntington Library and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Becky Presnall is a first-year PhD student in the English Department at Baylor University, where she also received her MA. Before Coming to Waco, Becky received her BA in English from Regent University in 2021. She currently serves as both Doctoral Administrative Fellow for the Graduate School and the Graduate Writing Center Coordinator. Her primary areas of interest are Middle English romance, medieval mythography, and classical philosophy.
Matt Turnbull has served and taught students in Washington State for 23 years and is now in his final year of the Ph.D. program at Baylor. His research tests the interpretive strengths of Saussure’s semiology and Augustine’s semiotic through a comparative reading of four seventeenth-century English poets, including Milton.