Jeffrey Knight

Appointment: 2009 to 2010, 2012 to 2013*
English Language and Literature

Jeffrey Todd Knight received his graduate training at Cambridge (M.Phil., 2007) and Northwestern (Ph.D., 2009), where he specialized in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, media studies, and the history of the book. He is currently at work on his first book manuscript, tentatively entitled Compiling Culture: Textual Assembly and the Production of Renaissance Literature, which argues that Renaissance writing practices were defined by the physical practices of text production – binding, anthology-building, interleaving – that multiplied and diversified after the emergence of print technology in England and Europe. Jeffrey has published on a range of subjects, including Shakespeare’s early compilers, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century library curatorship, books used as furniture, sewing, and authorship, with articles appearing or forthcoming in Shakespeare Quarterly, Criticism, Book History, and two edited collections. Other primary research interests include critical theory, humanities computing, and the digitization of literary texts. He currently teaches in the English Department.

*Recipient of outside funding.