Steven W. May is an American academic and author specializing in
English Renaissance
The English Renaissance was a Cultural movement, cultural and Art movement, artistic movement in England during the late 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that is usually regarded as beginni ...
poetry.
Life
He obtained his B.A. at
Rockford College
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and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the
University of Chicago
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. He served as professor of English at
Northern Illinois University
Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a public research university in DeKalb, Illinois, United States. It was founded as "Northern Illinois State Normal School" in 1895 by Illinois Governor John P. Altgeld, initially to provide the state with c ...
, and then at
Georgetown College
Georgetown College is a private Christian liberal arts college in Georgetown, Kentucky. Chartered in 1829, Georgetown was the first Baptist college west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The college offers over 40 undergraduate degrees and a Mas ...
, Georgetown, Kentucky, for 35 years, where he received the Cawthorne "Excellence in Teaching" Award in 1991. He retired from full-time teaching in 2004 and currently is a senior research fellow and the principal investigator on the "Early Modern Manuscript Poetry: Recovering our Scribal Heritage" project at the
University of Sheffield
The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University or TUOS) is a public university, public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Fir ...
.
Works
Books
* ''Henry Stanford’s Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75'' (1988)
* ''Sir Walter Raleigh'' (Twayne's English Authors Series) (1989)
* ''The Elizabethan Courtier Poets: The Poems and Their Contexts'' (1991, 1999)
* ''Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works'' (2004), ed.
* ''Elizabethan Poetry: A Bibliography and First-Line Index of English Verse, 1559-1603'', 3 vols. (2004) with William A. Ringler, Jr.
* ''In the Prayse of Writing: Early Modern Manuscript Studies: Essays in Honour of Peter Beal'' (2012) ed. with S. P. Cerasano
Articles
"Tudor Aristocrats and the Mythical 'Stigma of Print'"in ''Renaissance Papers 10'', Leigh A. Deneef and Thomas M. Hester, eds. (1980) 10: 11–18.
* "The Poems of Edward DeVere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex", ''Studies in Philology'' (1980) 77: 1–132.
* "The Seventeenth Earl of Oxford as Poet and Playwright", ''Tennessee Law Review'' (2004), 72: 221–54.
* "The Future of Manuscript Studies in Early Modern Poetry", ''Shakespeare Studies'' (2004), 32: 56–62.
* "Henry Gurney, a Norfolk Farmer, Reads Spenser and Others", ''Spenser Studies'' (2005), 20: 183–223.
* "Youthes Witte: An Unstudied Elizabethan Anthology of Printed Verse and Prose Fiction", ''Renaissance Papers 2006'' (2006), 1-11.
* "Early Courtier Verse: Oxford, Dyer, and Gascoigne", in ''Early Modern English Poetry'', Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., eds. 2007, pp. 60–69.
* "How Ralegh Became a Courtier", ''John Donne Journal'' (2008), 27: 131–140.
* "The Circulation in Manuscript of Poems by King James VI and I", in ''Renaissance Historicisms: Essays in Honor of Arthur F. Kinney'', eds. James M. Dutcher and Anne Lake Prescott, eds. 2008, pp. 206–24.
* "George Puttenham's Lewd and Lascivious Career", ''Texas Studies in Literature and Language'' (2008), 50: 143–76.
* "Popularizing Courtly Poetry: Tottel’s Miscellany and its Progeny", in ''The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature, 1485-1603'', Mike Pincombe and Cathy Shrank, eds. 2009, pp. 418–33.
* "Manuscripts in Tudor England," with
Heather Wolfe
Heather Ruth Wolfe (born 1971) is an American curator of manuscripts and archivist at the Folger Shakespeare Library. A "Shakespeare detective", she has been noted for her research into the history of the Shakespeare coat of arms. She headed "Shak ...
in ''A Companion to Tudor Literature'', ed. Kent Cartwright. 2010, pp. 125–39.
ReferencesSteven W. May, Georgetown College Faculty PageProfessor Steve May, University of Sheffield Faculty Page
External links
"Early Modern Manuscript Poetry: Recovering our Scribal Heritage" Project Homepage
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Living people
American academics of English literature
Year of birth missing (living people)