Curtis Whitaker
Professor
English and Philosophy
Idaho State University
United States of America
Biography
Curt Whitaker has taught Renaissance literature for the Department since his arrival in 2001. His research focuses on pre-industrial representations of nature--e.g., gardens, agriculture, water, medicinals--in seventeenth-century poetry, especially that of George Herbert and Andrew Marvell. He received ISU's Master Teacher Award in 2007 and 2015 and sits on the local boards of the Portneuf Valley Audubon Society and the Pinyon Jay Press.
Research Interest
aesthetics, cognitive theory, translation theory, religion and literature, pedagogy.
Publications
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"Andrew Marvell, Man Without Qualities," 2011, Essay Review, Huntington Library Quarterly.
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"German Translations of Paradise Lost," 2012, Yale Milton Encyclopedia.
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"Fairfax, Marvell, and the Mowers of Nun Appleton," 2013, Ben Jonson Journal.
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"Bioaesthetics and the American West," 2014, Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene, ed. Robert Boschman and Mario Trono (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press).
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"Domesticating and Foreignizing the Sublime: Paradise Lost in German," 2017, Milton in Translation, ed. Angelica Duran, Islam Issa, and Jonathan Olson (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
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"Marvell on Renaissance Translation Practice," forthcoming in Studies in English Literature.
