Richard Rambuss specializes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature. He is particularly interested in Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser, the metaphysical poets, Renaissance devotional literature, and the baroque. He also works in gender and sexuality studies, contemporary cultural studies, and film.

Professor Rambuss earned his B.A. from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins. He joined Emory’s English Department in the fall of 1996. He is also a core member of the Department of Comparative Literature.

Selected Publications:

Books

• Closet Devotions. Duke University Press, Series Q, 1998

• Spenser's Secret Career. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, 1993 (paperback edition 2006)

Articles

• Indicatively Male: Stanley Kubrick’s War Films and Male Military Cultures,” in Feminist and Queer Legal Theories: Convergences and Departures, ed. Martha Fineman and Adam Romero (forthcoming)

• “After Male Sex,” in “After Sex? New Writing Since Queer Theory,” a special issue of SAQ, ed. Janet Halley and Andrew Parker

• “Milton and the Incarnation: Embodiment, Gender, and Eroticism in ‘On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity.’” Approaches to Teaching Milton’s Shorter Poetry and Prose, ed. Peter C. Herman (in press)

• “Sacred Subjects and the Aversive Metaphysical Conceit: Crashaw, Serrano, Ofili,” ELH 71 (2004): 497-530