Christopher Martin
ccmartin@bu.edu

Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies. B.A., St. Joseph’s; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Virginia 

Teaching and Research Interests: 16th- and 17th-century English literature; Renaissance lyric and prose fiction; literature of the visual arts; Spenser; history of literary criticism.  
Selected Publications: Editor, Ovid in English (1998); Policy in Love: Lyric and Public in Ovid, Petrarch, and Shakespeare (1994); “‘Parole estreme’: Canzoniere 126,” Approaches to Teaching Petrarch (forthcoming); “Lyric Poetry,” The Classical Tradition (forthcoming); “Translating Ovid,” The Blackwell Companion to Ovid (2009); “Sidney’s Exemplary Horse Master and the Disciplines of Discontent,” Renaissance Historicisms (2008); “Fall and Decline: Confronting Lyric Gerontophobia in Donne’s ‘The Autumnall’,” John Donne Journal 26 (2007); “The Breast and Belly of a Queen: Elizabeth After Tilbury,” Early Modern Women 2 (2007); “Made plaine by examples: Parceling Philip Sidney in Abraham Fraunce’s Arcadian Rhetorike,” Sidney Journal 24 (2006); “Retrieving Jonson’s Petrarch,” Shakespeare Quarterly 45 (1993); “Turning Others’ Leaves: Astrophil and the Experience of Defeat,” Spenser Studies 10 (1992); “Flecknoe’s Cabinet and Marvell’s Cankered Muse,” Essays in Criticism 40 (1990); “Misdoubting His Estate: Dynastic Anxiety in Sidney’s Arcadia,” English Literary Renaissance 18 (1988); “A Reconsideration of Ovid’s Fasti,” Illinois Classical Studies 10 (1985).
Work in Progress:  a book provisionally titled Constituting Old Age in English Renaissance Literature.
Honors, Grants, and Awards: Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellowship, 2009-10; NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship (2005-08); NEH Scholarly Publications grant for Policy in Love (1994); Folger Shakespeare Library Fellow (Summer 1992, 1995).