Ian MacInnes

 aka “Lycimnius”

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Recent items

A chapter on Semantic Memory in Shakespeare in Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2016). Read more...

I have a chapter on invertebrate life in early-modern literature in Vin Nardizzi and Jean Feerick’s collection The Indistinct Human in Renaissance Literature (Palgrave 2012).  Read more...

 

Professor of English

Albion College

Albion, MI

Born in 1965

Education: PhD, University of Virginia, 1995

Field: Elizabethan Poetry


RESEARCH BLOG POSTS

How to think for yourself Teaching at a small college like Albion is a privilege because nowhere else do the demands of scholarship and teaching so closely match. Curiosity has always been the guiding principle of my work in sixteenth and seventeenth-century literature. The people of the past are as culturally different from us as anyone alive today, yet we inherit our language from them, our great poetic works, and part of our sense of self. The puzzles and confusions of early English literature have a lot to tell any of us who claim English as our language. I also want to cultivate curiosity in my students. When they ask me what I want from an assignment or in class, I really want to answer, “I want you to think for yourself.” Without intellectual curiosity all the other talents my students have in abundance (intelligence, creativity, and determination), are hollow.

My favorite past publication

  1. BulletOn mastiffs, spaniels, and early modern concepts of gender - in Textual Practice.

Scholarship
Teaching

Literature

  1. BulletRenaissance Women’s Writing

  2. BulletAge of Elizabeth

  3. BulletMilton and the 17th century

  4. BulletBritish Literature I (survey)

  5. BulletGreek & Roman Literature (survey)

Writing

  1. BulletAdvanced Expository Writing

Check out the news reports from the chariot project in my first-year seminar!