Dr John Hale
MA (Oxon), PhD (Edin),
DipEd (Durh), LittD (Otago)
| john.hale@otago.ac.nz | |
| Phone | 64 3 479 8952 |
| Fax | 64 3 479 8558 |
| Office | 1W4 First Floor Arts Building Albany Street Dunedin |
| Department of English University of Otago PO Box 56 Dunedin New Zealand |
Expertise
Renaissance literature
Be sure to visit Milton at Otago
Possible Supervision
Has supervised Renaissance poetry and nineteenth-century fiction. Would like also to supervise work on the inheritance of classical tradition by writers in English.
Current Research
A book on Milton's Cambridge University education, Milton's Cambrdige Latin 1625-1632, appearing from MRTS in 2005.
Publications
Books
Editor, Sonnets of Four Centuries 1500-1900: An Anthology for Students of English Literature, Otago Studies in English 2, Department of English/University of Otago Press, 1992, 188 pp.
The Shakespeare of the Comedies: A Multiple Approach, Peter Lang AG, 1996, 201 pp.
Milton's Languages. The Impact of Multilingualism on Style, Cambridge University Press, 1997, 258 pp.
World and Stage: Essays for Colin Gibson, ed. Greg Waite, Jocelyn Harris, Heather Murray and John Hale, Otago Studies in English 6, 1998, 288 pp.
John Milton. Latin Writings. A Selection, edited and translated by John K Hale, Medieval and Renaissance Text Society, 1999, 250 pp.
Milton's Cambridge Latin : performing in the genres, 1625-1632, Tempe, Arizona, 2005.
Publications from 1997 to date also include
'Milton Meditates the Ode.' Classical and Modern Literature 16.4 (1997): 341-58 This essay was awarded the Milton Society of America's James Holly Hanford prize for 'The most distinguished essay on John Milton published in 1997'.
'Milton and De Doctrina Christiana.' Gordon Campbell, Thomas N. Corns, John K. Hale, David Holmes and Fiona Tweedie, Milton Quarterly 31 (1997): 67-121
'Using Aristotle.' Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 25.1 (1998): 103-122
'Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream II.i.101.' The Explicator 57.4 (1999): 200
'Books and Book-Form in Milton.' Renaissance and Reformation (1999): 23.4: 63-76
'Milton and the Rationale of Insulting' in Milton and Heresy, Stephen B. Dobranski and John P. Rumrich ed., Cambridge University Press (1998) 159-75. The volume as a whole won the Milton Society of America's 'Best Collection' award (1999)
'The Classical Literary Tradition' in A Companion to Milton, Thomas N. Corns ed., Basil Blackwell (2001) 122-36
'“In Vain Have I Struggled”: Pride and Prejudice Chapter 34.' Persuasions: Journal of the Jane Austen Society of North America 19.4 (2000): 79-82
'Milton on the Style Best for Historiography.' Prose Studies 23.3 (2000): 63-76
'Austen's Emma Chapter 27.' The Explicator 59.3 (2001): 123-24
'Milton and the Gunpowder plot: In Quintum Novembris reconsidered.' Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies 50 (2001): 351-66
'Neo-Latin Polemic in the 1650s: Milton versus Salmasius and Others.' Classical and Modern Literature 21.1 (2001): 1-23
"J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapters 1 & 2." The Explicator 60 (2002):220-21