David Read - People - English Department - College of Arts and Science

Professor;

office: 60 McReynolds
phone: 573-882-0656
email: readd@missouri.edu
office hours: MW 3:00-4:30

Research and teaching areas:
the Renaissance and the early
colonial period in the Americas

David Read

David Read teaches courses on a variety of Renaissance topics, and his research interests range from Elizabethan England to colonial New England. He has published two books, Temperate Conquests: Spenser and the Spanish New World (Wayne State University Press, 2000) and New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing (University of Missouri Press, 2005), as well as essays on Spenser, Shakespeare, Raleigh, Captain John Smith, and William Bradford. He grows many different kinds of native and non-native plants in his yard and loves to talk horticulture when he gets the chance.

Education
PhD 1987, University of Chicago

Selected Publications

David Read. New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing (University of Missouri Press, 2005) www.umsystem.edu

David Read. Temperate Conquests: Spenser and the Spanish New World (Wayne State University Press, 2000) wsupress.wayne.edu

Courses Taught

English 3200: Survey of British Literature, Beginning to 1784

English 4166/7166: Major Authors, Beginning to 1603

English 4167/7167: Major Authors, 1603-1789

English 4996: Honors Seminar in English

English 8220: Seminar in Renaissance British Literature