Lori Anne Ferrell :: Ph.D., Yale University
Professor of English and History

Professor Lori Anne Ferrell (Ph.D., Yale University) holds a joint appointment in Early Modern History and Literature in the School of Arts and Humanities. Her research and teaching interests concentrate on the effect of religious and political change on early modern texts--theological, literary, theatrical, and practical--in the turbulent century before the outbreak of civil wars in Britain . She is the author of Government by Polemic (Stanford UP) and co-editor of The English Sermon Revised (Manchester UP) and Religion and Society in Early Modern England (Routledge). She encourages transdisciplinary enrollment in her courses, which include The Shakespeare Seminar as well as classes on Sidney, Spenser, Donne, early modern theatre, and the post-reformation Bible and its influence on literature (English Department); Renaissance and Reformation Europe, the politics of Calvinism, Tudor-Stuart British history, Post-reformation England, and transatlantic Puritanism (History Department).

Ferrell has co-directed three NEH Summer Institutes for College and University Faculty and has been a seminar director for the Folger Institute of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. She was the guest curator for a 2004 Huntington Library exhibit entitled The Bible and the People, was featured in a 2007 PBS documentary on the same subject, and is currently completing a book with the same title for Yale University Press (forthcoming 2008). She has recently been commissioned to edit a volume of The Complete Sermons of John Donne for Oxford University Press. Professor Ferrell has been awarded research grants from the Fulbright Commission, the Whiting Foundation, the British Academy, the Huntington Library, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. History Department/English Department School of Arts and Humanities Claremont Graduate University 143 East Tenth Street Claremont, CA 91711 Tel.: 909.607.2652 Fax: 909.607.1221 Email: lori.ferrell@cgu.edu