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Lara Crowley

Assistant Professor

Renaissance English Literature

Office: ZU1005
Phone: 753-6629
Email: lcrowley@niu.edu

Educational Background


B.S. from North Carolina State University in 1999;
M.A. from North Carolina State University in 2002;
Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2007

Professional Interests


British Renaissance literature
John Donne studies
Book History
Manuscript Studies
Scholarly Editing in Digital Environments
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Selected Publications

  • “Donne’s Dubia: Reassessing the Authorship of Six Prose Works,” John Donne Journal (forthcoming 2012).
  • “John Donne,” Oxford Bibliographies Online, gen. ed. Margaret King (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012).
  • “Was Southampton a Poet? A Verse Letter to Queen Elizabeth,” English Literary Renaissance 41.1 (2011): 111-45.
  • “Archival Research,” in The Oxford Handbook of John Donne, editors Dennis Flynn,M. Thomas Hester, and Jeanne Shami (Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 34-42.
  • “A Text of Donne’s ‘Resurrection. Imperfect,’” John Donne Journal 29 (2010): 185-98.
  • Lara M. Crowley and Brian Blackley, “Literary and Cultural Contexts,” in The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook, editors Robert C. Evans and Eric J. Sterling (London: Continuum Press, 2010), pp. 58-84.
  • “Donne, not Davison: Reconsidering the Authorship of ‘Psalme 137,’” Modern Philology 105.4 (2008): 603-36.
  • “Cecil and the Soul: Donne’s Metempsychosis in its Context in Folger Manuscript V. a. 241,” English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 13 (2007): 47-76.
  • “Establishing a ‘fitter’ Text of Donne’s ‘The Good Morrowe,’” John Donne Journal 22 (2003): 5-21.

Current Courses

CourseMeeting Days / Time / Room
Fall 2013ENGL 407.1 (details)
TTH / 12:30 - 1:45 / RH305
Fall 2013ENGL 742.P001 (details)
TTH / * / RH201
Spring 2013ENGL 407.2 (details)
MWF / 11:00 - 11:50 / RH 202
Spring 2013ENGL 410.1 (details)
MWF / 10:00 - 10:50 / RH 202
Fall 2012ENGL 409.1 (details)
MWF / 9:00 - 9:50 / RH201
Fall 2012ENGL 642. (details)
TH / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH302
Spring 2013ENGL 200.3 (details)
MWF / 1:00 - 1:50 / RH 202