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Ken Hiltner
(Ph.D., Harvard University, 2006)
Associate Professor, English Department
U. California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
tel: (805) 564-2304 (Home)
fax: (805) 893-4622
email: hiltner@english.ucsb.edu
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Areas of Interest
- Renaissance Literature
- Literature and the Environment
- Literary Theory
- Greek, Roman, and German Literature
- Philosophy (especially Continental)
- The History of Ideas
- The Future of Our Planet
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Milton and Ecology. (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Renaissance Ecology: Imagining Eden in Milton's England. Edited and Introduced by Ken Hiltner (Duquesne University Press: forthcoming January 2008)
Current Projects
Current projects include a book and four articles:
- "Renaissance Literature and Our Contemporary Attitude Toward Global Warming"
- "Dread, Technology, and Eve’s Fall in Paradise Lost"
- "Spencer, Empire, and Ecology"
- "Environmental Protest Literature in Renaissance England"
Recent Courses Taught
Cultural Representations: Introduction to Literature and the Environment, English 122EN, Spring 2008 (Undergrad)
Milton: Milton and Ecology, English 162, Spring 2008 (Undergrad)
English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650, English 101, Winter 2008 (Undergrad)
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory: Theories of Literature and the Environment, English 236, Winter 2008 (Grad)
Topics in Literature: Renaissance Pastoral, English 165MP, Winter 2007 (Undergrad)
Upper-Division Seminar: Metaphysical Poets, English 197, Winter 2007 (Undergrad)
Cultural Representations: Ecocriticism and the Writing of Nature, English 122EN, Fall 2006 (Undergrad)
Studies in Renaissance Literature: Milton and His Contemporaries, English 231, Fall 2006 (Grad)
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