David Glimp

Associate Professor of English
Office: Denison 181
Telephone: 303-492-8953
E-mail: David.Glimp@colorado.edu


Research and teaching interests

16th- and 17th-century British literature; contemporary literary and cultural theory; gender and sexuality; humanism; ethics

Education

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1996
M.A., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1993
B.S., Texas A&M University, 1985

Publications

Books

Co-ed. with Michelle Warren, Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe. Palgrave, 2004

Increase and Multiply: Governing Cultural Reproduction in Early Modern England. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2003

Essays

"I.A. Richards's Principles of Literary Criticism and the Uses of Pleasure," Western Humanities Review 63.1(Winter 2009): 32-41. Forthcoming.

"Utopia and Global Risk Management." ELH 75.2 (Summer 2008)

"Introduction." Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe, ed. David Glimp and Michelle Warren. Palgrave, 2004, xv-xxix

"Paradisal Arithmetic: Paradise Lost and the Genesis of Populations." Modern Language Quarterly 60 (1999): 1-31

"Staging Government: Shakespeare’s Life of King Henry the Eighth and the Government of Generations." Criticism 41 (1999): 41-65

Selected honors and awards

Faculty Fellow, CU Boulder Center for Humanities and the Arts, 2008-2009

Current projects

The Poetics of Emergency: Security and Catastrophe in Renaissance English Literature (book)

“On Beauty and Being Tyrannical: Beauty and Agency in Elizabeth Cary's Mariam” (article)

“Figuring Belief: George Herbert’s Devotional Creatures” (article)

"Middleton and the Theater of Emergency" (article)