Dickson, Donald
individual record
Professor
Positions:
- Professor, English, College of Arts and Sciences
overview
My interests include textual editing, the devotional poetry of the seventeenth century, Renaissance Hermeticism, utopianism, and the history of science in the seventeenth century.
education and training
- Ph.D. in English, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - (Urbana, Illinois, United States) 1981
- M.A. in English, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - (Urbana, Illinois, United States) 1976
- B.A. in English, University of Connecticut - (Storrs, Connecticut, United States) 1973
selected publications
Academic Articles31
- Dickson, D. R. (2021). The Text and Stemma of 'To S(R) H: W: Going into Venice:'. REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES. 73(309), 250-263.
- Dickson, D. R. (2020). Henry Vaughan's Knowledge (and Use) of Greek. STUDIES IN PHILOLOGY. 117(1), 201-224.
- Dickson, D. R. (2015). John Donne and the Conway Papers: Patronage and Manuscript Circulation in the Early Seventeenth Century.. REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES. 66(276), 780-782.
- Dickson, D. R. (2014). Vaughans The Water-fall and Protestant Meditation. Explorations in Renaissance Culture. 40(1-2), 41-52.
Books8
- Dickson, D. R., & Nelson, H. F (2004). Of Paradise and Light Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum. University of Delaware Press.
- Vaughan, T., Vaughan, R., Dickson, D. R., & Library, B (2001). Thomas and Rebecca Vaughan's Aqua Vitae, Non Vitis (British Library MS, Sloane 1741). Mrts.
- Dickson, D. R (1998). The Tessera of Antilia_ Utopian Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in the Early Seventeenth Century. BRILL.
Chapters4
- Dickson, D. R. (2018). Vaughan's Devotional Prose as Political Act and Prayer. PRAYER AND PERFORMANCE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE. 181-197.
- Dickson, D. R. (2012). Research tools and their pitfalls for Donne studies. The Oxford Handbook of John Donne.
- Dickson, D. R. (2004). The Mount of Olives: Vaughans Book of Private Prayer. Dickson, D. R., & Nelson, H. F. (Eds.), Of Paradise and Light Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum. 202-217. University of Delaware Press.
- Dickson, D. R. (2004). Utopia. Dewald, J. (Eds.), Europe 1450 to 1789 encyclopedia of the early modern world. 105-106. Scribner.
editor of
Books1
awards and honors
- Humboldt Research Fellowship conferred by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - (Bonn, Germany) - Englsiches Seminar, Universität Tübingen, 2016 2016
- Humboldt Research Fellowship conferred by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - (Bonn, Germany) - Institut für Anglistik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1992–1993 1992
recent teaching activities
- ENGL212 Shakespeare Instructor
- ENGL221 World Literature Instructor
- ENGL315 17th Century Literature Instructor
- ENGL318 Utopian Lit Engl Tradition Instructor
- ENGL412 Studies In Shakespeare Instructor
Email
d-dickson@tamu.edu
First Name
Donald
Last Name
Dickson
mailing address
Texas A&M University; English; 4227 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4227
USA