William Weaver

Associate Professor of Literature

Brooks Flats North 135D Tel: (254) 710-6317 Email: W_Weaver@baylor.edu CV in PDF format

Education

• Ph.D., Columbia University

• M.A., Columbia University

• B.A., Vanderbilt University

Specialties

• Renaissance Humanism, Early Modern English Poetry, Classical Tradition, History of Rhetoric

Research Interests

My research concerns the history of humanist rhetorical education and its impact on the development of English literature in one of its most celebrated periods, the Renaissance. My book, Untutored Lines: The Making of the English Epyllion, shows the impact of rhetoric on the formation of social identities and literary genres in the late sixteenth century.

Selected Publications

Book

• Untutored Lines: The Making of the English Epyllion (Edinburgh, 2012)

Journal Articles

• ’A More Excellent Way: Philip Melanchthon’s Corinthians Lectures of 1521-1522.’ Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 37 (2014): 31-63.

• ’The Banquet of the Common Sense: George Chapman’s Anti-Epyllion.' Studies in Philology 111 (2014): 757-785.

• ’The Verse Divisions of the New Testament and the Literary Culture of the Reformation.’ Reformation 16 (2011): 161-177.

• ’Triplex est Copia: Philip Melanchthon’s Invention of the Rhetorical Figures.’ Rhetorica 29 (2011): 367-402.

• ’Paraphrase and Patronage in Virgils Gnat.’ Spenser Studies 25 (2010): 247-261.

• ’’O teach me how to make mine own excuse’: Forensic Performance in Lucrece.’ Shakespeare Quarterly 59 (2008): 421-449.

• ’Marlowe’s Fable: Hero and Leander and the Rudiments of Eloquence.’ Studies in Philology 105 (2008): 388-408.

Work in Progress

• “Collected Writings on Rhetoric: Volume 2 of the Opera Philosophica of Philip Melanchthon.” Critical edition; international and interdisciplinary collaboration; awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (2015-2018).

• “Melanchthon’s Homer: Rhetorical Reading and the Literary Culture of the Reformation.” Book project; awarded the Loeb Classical Library Fellowship and a Research Fellowship from the International Society for the History of Rhetoric.

• “A Classical Education.” Book chapter to appear in the Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature, ed. Sean Keilen and Nick Moschovakis. In Press.

• “Rhetorik.” Trans. Tobias Jammerthal. Book chapter to appear in Melanchthon-Handbuch, ed. Günter Frank. Berlin: De Gruyter, in press.