Darryl J. Gless

Office of the Dean
205 South Building, CB# 3100
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520

My most recent scholarly interest emerged from work in departmental and university administration and in teaching. While Associate Dean in charge of general education at Chapel Hill, I also co-edited, with Barbara Herrnstein Smith, a volume of essays on The Politics of Liberal Education (Duke University Press, 1991) That work, together with the influence of brilliant students, led me to re-focus my scholarly interests on early modern cross-cultural contacts as well as the educational challenges and opportunities occasioned by increasing racial, ethnic, and other kinds of diversity in university classrooms. I have pursued that work in recent years more persistently as teacher and administrator than as scholar. I expect soon to rejoin colleagues at work in that area of scholarship, and, in the meanwhile, I persist in attending to the earlier areas of interest embodied in my books and articles. Those publications include a study of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure in its theological, philosophical, and political meanings and contexts (Princeton University Press, 1979) and of the theological implications Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene (Interpretation and Theology in Spenser, Cambridge University Press, 1994). The latter book describes a diversity of complex ideas contained within sixteenth-century orthodoxies, explores that diversity's implications for reading literature from doctrinal points of view, and provides a detailed analysis of The Faerie Queene, Book i.

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