Editorial Team

General Editor

Peter McCullough, BA (UCLA), PhD (Princeton), is Sohmer-Hall Fellow in English Renaissance Literature at Lincoln College, Oxford, and Lecturer in the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford.  He is editor of Lancelot Andrewes: Selected Sermons & Lectures (OUP, 2005); author of Sermons at Court: Politics and Religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean Preaching (Cambridge, 1998), and numerous ODNB lives of early modern clergy; he is also co-editor (with Emma Rhatigan and Hugh Adlington) of The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon (OUP 2011).  He has published many articles on early modern religious writing and its print publication.  In July 2010, Dr McCullough was elected to the Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral, as Lay Canon with portfolio for history.

Deputy General Editor

David Colclough, MA (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon), is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of the ODNB life of John Donne, and the editor of John Donne’s Professional Lives (D.S. Brewer, 2003). His monograph Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England was published by CUP in 2005. His previous experience of textual editing is as the editor of New Atlantis for the Oxford Francis Bacon. He has published extensively on manuscript miscellanies, rhetoric and political thought, and is a General Editor of the monograph series Studies in Renaissance Literature for Boydell and Brewer.

AHRC Postdoctoral Research Associate

Sebastiaan Verweij, MA (Amsterdam), PhD (Glasgow), is the AHRC Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, as well as a Hardie Research Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford (Oct 2010-2012). His work on Donne’s sermons mostly involves bibliographical research, and with Peter McCullough he will be responsible for authoring the Textual Companion to the series. He also works on early modern English and Scottish book history (especially manuscript culture), and is currently writing his first monograph, Scottish Scribal Culture 1560-1625, a study of miscellany manuscripts and commonplace books. He has published various articles on Scottish literature and book history. He edits the Journal of the Northern Renaissance.

Contributing Editors

Hugh Adlington, MA (Oxon), PhD (London), is Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham. His work on Donne includes a number of journal articles on the formal and political aspects of Donne’s sermons, and a forthcoming monograph, John Donne’s Books: Reading, Writing, and the Uses of Knowledge. He is a contributor to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Donne Studies (eds. J. Shami, M. Thomas Hester, and D. Flynn), and co-editor (with Peter McCullough and Emma Rhatigan) of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon (to which he has also contributed a chapter, ‘Restoration, Religion, and Law: Assize Sermons 1660-1685’). 

Katrin Ettenhuber, MA (Cantab), MPhil (Cantab), PhD (Cantab), is a Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and College Lecturer at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She held the A.H. Lloyd Junior Research Fellowship at Christ’s College, Cambridge, from 2003-2006. She is the author of Donne’s Augustine: Renaissance Cultures of Interpretation (OUP, forthcoming 2011) and co-editor, with Gavin Alexander and Sylvia Adamson, of Renaissance Figures of Speech (Cambridge, 2007). She has written articles on Donne’s sermons, Renaissance patristics, early modern rhetoric, and seventeenth-century manuscript culture.

Lori Anne Ferrell (BLS, MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale) was from 1991 to 2005 Professor of Reformation and Early Modern Studies at Claremont Graduate University and the Claremont School of Theology (California), and is now Professor of Early Modern History and Literature in the School of Arts and Humanities, Claremont Graduate University. She is the author of Government by Polemic: James I and the King’s Preachers (Stanford UP, 1998), co-editor (with David Cressy) of Society and Religion in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2nd ed., 2006) and (with Peter McCullough) of The English Sermon Revised (Manchester UP, 1999). In 2004, she guest-curated a Huntington Library exhibit on the cultural history of the English-language Bible from the 11th to the 21st centuries; her book on that subject, The Bible and the People, was published by Yale University Press in 2008.

Arnold Hunt is a Curator of Manuscripts at the British Library.  His book, The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and their Audiences 1590-1640 (2010), is published by Cambridge University Press.

Erica Longfellow, MSt (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), is Reader in English Literature at Kingston University. She is the author of Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2004) as well as several articles on religious writing, women’s writing and privacy. She is currently working on a new monograph, provisionally titled Writing Privacy in Early Modern England: The Household and Religious Life, which historicises the concept of privacy through a comparison of imaginative literature and prescriptive texts with letters, diaries, journals and other evidence of everyday usage in household relations and devotional practice. Longfellow was Co-director with Elizabeth Clarke (Warwick) of Constructing Elizabeth Isham: 1609-1654, a British Academy Larger Research Project that produced an online edition of Elizabeth Isham’s manuscript autobiography (1639) and memoranda (1648). Longfellow was also Academic Supervisor on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Historic Royal Palaces that redesigned the visitor experience of the Tudor Palace for the five-hundredth anniversary of the accession of Henry VIII. 

Mary Ann Lund, MA, MPhil, DPhil (Oxon) is Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester. From 2006 to 2009 she was Junior Research Fellow in the Humanities at Mansfield College, Oxford. She is the author of Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England: Reading 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and has written articles on subjects including Donne, Robert Burton, John Bunyan, Sir Thomas Browne, and sermon paratexts. She is currently writing a book about the experience of illness in early modern writing. 

Mary Morrissey, MLitt (Dub.), PhD (Cantab.), is a lecturer in the Department of English Language Literature, University of Reading. Her monograph, Politics and the Paul’s Cross Sermons, 1588-1642 is forthcoming from Oxford University Press (2011). She has also published articles on early modern preaching and religious culture, particularly with reference to Paul’s Cross, to preaching rhetoric and to early modern women’s devotional writing.

Emma Rhatigan, MA (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her DPhil thesis examined Donne’s Lincoln’s Inn sermons and she is currently completing a monograph on preaching and religious culture at Lincoln’s Inn. She is co-editor, with Peter McCullough and Hugh Adlington, of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon and has written articles on Donne, early modern sermons, and the relationships between the pulpit and the stage in early modern London. 

Philip West, MPhil (Cantab), PhD (Cantab), is Fellow & Tutor in English at Somerville College, Oxford, and ‘Times’ Lecturer in the Faculty of English. He is the author of Henry Vaughan’s Silex Scintillans: Scripture Uses (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001) as well as several articles on early modern devotional poetry and religion. He is currently editing The Poems of James Shirley, which will be the first volume of the Complete Works of James Shirley (Oxford University Press, 2012- ) to appear in print.