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Tim Crowley

Assistant Professor

Renaissance English Literature

Office: ZU1016
Phone: 753-6649
Email: tcrowley@niu.edu

Educational Background


B.A. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2000;
M.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2004;
Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2009.

Professional Interests


Renaissance English Literature
Religion and Politics
Classical Tradition & Renaissance Reception
Renaissance Spanish Literature


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Selected Awards

Calvin and Rose G. Hoffman Prize for a Distinguished Essay on Christopher Marlowe, The King’s School, Canterbury (December 2007, for “Arms and the Boy”).

Selected Publications

  • Feigned Histories of Secret Marriage: Love, Law, and Politics in Sidney’s Arcadia and Spanish Chivalric Romance [book in progress].
  • “Sireno and Philisides: The Politics of Piety in Spanish Pastoral Romance and Sidney’s Old Arcadia.” Studies in Philology 110.1 (2013).
  • “Arms and the Boy: Marlowe’s Aeneas and the Parody of Imitation in Dido, Queen of Carthage.” English Literary Renaissance 38.3 (2008): 408-38.
  • “An Englishman on the Grand Tour, 1604-06: John Wray’s Pilgrim’s Journal.” Ben Jonson Journal: Literary Contexts in the Age of Elizabeth, James, and Charles 9 (2002): 193-233. [annotated edition of Huntington Library Manuscript 60705]

Current Courses

CourseMeeting Days / Time / Room
Fall 2013ENGL 408.1 (details)
MWF / 10:00 - 10:50 / RH302
Fall 2013ENGL 315.1 (details)
MWF / 11:00 - 11:50 / RH302
Spring 2013ENGL 641.1 (details)
TH / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH202
Spring 2013ENGL 407.1 (details)
TTH / 9:30 - 10:45 / RH 205
Spring 2013ENGL 408.1 (details)
TTH / 11:00 - 12:15 / RH 205
Fall 2012ENGL 200.2 (details)
TTH / 11:00 - 12:15 / RH 201
Fall 2012ENGL 407.2 (details)
TTH / 9:30 - 10:45 / RH 201