Thomas Herron works on the early modern poet Edmund Spenser and Irish plantation, with interest in connections to Sir Walter Raleigh and Thomas Harriot.  He also has a strong interest in medieval and early modern Irish history, archaeology, and culture.  His teaching experience and interests include Shakespeare, Milton, Sir Philip Sidney, composition, creative writing (poetry) and general literature surveys.  

Degrees
B.A. Carleton College
M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison

Primary Areas of Research/Teaching
Renaissance Britain and Ireland
Irish Studies and Archaeology
Spenser and Shakespeare

Courses Taught
6121: Shakespeare in the Renaissance
4090: Shakespeare: The Tragedies
4080: Shakespeare: The Comedies
3000: History of British Literature to 1700
2000: Interpreting Literature
1100: Composition
1000: Appreciating Literature

Selected Publications and Presentations
Sir Walter Ralegh in Ireland by Sir John Pope Hennessy (University College Dublin Press, forthcoming) [ed.]

“Edmund Spenser’s Mother Hubberds Tale (1591) and Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.”  Studies in Philology (forthcoming 2008).

Spenser’s Irish Work:  Poetry, Plantation and Reformation (Ashgate 2007)

Ireland in the Renaissance, 1540-1660 (Four Courts Press 2007) [contributor and co-editor with Michael Potterton]

“Climbing to Machu Picchu on Pablo Neruda’s Inca Trail” (creative non-fiction).Garnet: The Hampden-Sydney Magazine 111.2 (Fall 2003): 31-6.