Professor Staines

JOHN STAINES

John Staines, Assistant Professor of English, received his Ph.D. from Yale University. Before joining the faculty at John Jay, he taught at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts and at Earlham College in Indiana. His research and teaching centers on Renaissance and Early Modern literature and culture, especially epic, romance, and tragedy. He has published essays on John Milton, Edmund Spenser, and William
Shakespeare, addressing, for instance, how writers have represented the trials and executions of Mary Queen of Scots and King Charles I of England and how early modern thinkers conceived of the passions and emotions. His work has appeared in Milton Studies, The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and Shakespeare Quarterly, and as a chapter in Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion (Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2004). He is currently working on two projects, one on the "tragic histories" of Mary Queen of Scots -- lurid tales of religion, sex, murder, and politics -- and another on early-modern responses to violence.


			JOHN STAINES John Staines, Assistant Professor of English, received his Ph.D. from Yale University. Before joining the faculty at John Jay, he taught at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts and at Earlham College in Indiana. His research and teaching centers on Renaissance and Early Modern literature and culture, especially epic, romance, and tragedy. He has published essays on John Milton, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare, addressing, for instance, how writers have represented the trials and executions of Mary Queen of Scots and King Charles I of England and how early modern thinkers conceived of the passions and emotions. His work has appeared in Milton Studies, The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and Shakespeare Quarterly, and as a chapter in Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion (Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2004). He is currently working on two projects, one on the "tragic histories" of Mary Queen of Scots -- lurid tales of religion, sex, murder, and politics -- and another on early-modern responses to violence.

	Office: 738A Phone: (212) 237-2051 E-Mail: jstaines@jjay.cuny.edu