Interests and Information
Early modern English literature and culture
Early modern economic history
British history and historiography
Peter G. Phialas Professor
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1992
M.A., The Johns Hopkins University, 1983
B. A., Calvin College, 1979
davidbak@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-4059
David Baker
Professional Experience:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008-
University of Hawaii, Manoa, 1991-2008
Bibliography:
Books:
On Demand: Writing for the Market in Early Modern England (Stanford University Press, 2010)
"The Post-Colonial Past," special issue of Modern Language Quarterly, ed. David J. Baker and Barbara Fuchs (vol. 6, no. 3, Sept. 2004).
British Identities and English Renaissance Literature, ed. David J. Baker and Willy Maley (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell and the Question of Britain (Stanford University Press, 1997)
Recent Articles:
"'My liquid journey': the frontispiece of Coryat's Crudities," Environment and Embodiment in Early Modern England, ed. Mary Floyd-Wilson and Garrett Sullivan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
"Glyn Dwr, Glendouer, Glendourdy, and Glendower," Shakespeare and Wales, ed. Willy Maley and Philip Schwyzer (Ashgate, forthcoming).
"Spenser's Politics," Handbook of Spenser Studies, ed. Richard McCabe (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).