Sauer, Elizabeth M. 1964-

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SAUER, Elizabeth M. 1964-

PERSONAL: Born July 4, 1964, in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada; daughter of Albert (a factory worker) and Anneliese (a homemaker; maiden name, Sander) Sauer. Ethnicity: "German." Education: Wilfrid Laurier University, H.B.A. (magna cum laude), 1986; University of Western Ontario, M.A., 1987, Ph.D., 1991. Politics: "New Democrat Party supporter." Religion: Roman Catholic.

ADDRESSES: Home—15 Valerie Dr., St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2T 3G3. Office—Department of English, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada; fax: 905-688-5550, extension 4492. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, assistant professor, 1991-95, associate professor, 1995-99, professor of English, 1999—. Newberry Library, member of Center for Renaissance Studies; Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, member. Worldwise International Awareness Centre, volunteer, 1995-96.

MEMBER: Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, Milton Society of America (member of executive committee), Shakespeare Society of America, Renaissance Society of America, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.

AWARDS, HONORS: Fellow of Dartmouth College and University of Western Ontario, 1991; grants from Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1992-95, 1995-99, 2000, and Canadian Federation for the Humanities, 1994-97; Irene Samuel Memorial Award, Milton Society of America, 2000, for Milton and the Imperial Vision; award of Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence, Brock University, 2001.

WRITINGS:

Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in Milton's Epics (monograph), McGill-Queen's University Press (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), 1996.

(Editor, with Janet Lungstrum, and contributor) Agonistics: Arenas of Creative Contest, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1997.

(Editor, with Balachandra Rajan, and contributor) Milton and the Imperial Vision, Duquesne University Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1999.

(Editor, with Jennifer Andersen, and contributor) Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies, University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia, PA), 2002.

(Editor, with Helen Ostovich, and contributor) Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1500-1700, Routledge (New York, NY), 2003.

(Editor, with Balachandra Rajan, and contributor) Imperialisms: Historical and Literary Investigations, 1500-1900, Palgrave Macmillan (New York, NY), 2004.

Contributor to books, including Milton and Heresy, edited by John Rumrich and Stephen Dobranski, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1998; Sensible Flesh: On Touch in Early Modern Culture, edited by Elizabeth D. Harvey, University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia, PA), 2002; Fault Lines and Controversies in the Study of Seventeenth-Century English Literature, edited by Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO), 2002; Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexualities, edited by Constance Relihan and Goran Stanivukovic, Kent State University Press (Kent, OH), 2003; and Reading Milton Writing Gender: The Place of the Feminine in the Major Poems and Prose, edited by Catherine Gimelli Martin, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2003. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including Explorations in Renaissance Culture, English Studies in Canada, and Ben Jonson Journal: Literary Contexts in the Age of Elizabeth, James, and Charles. Renaissance and Reformation, book review editor, 1997—, coeditor of special issue, 2004; member of editorial board, Harpweaver, 1996-97.

WORK IN PROGRESS: "Paper-Protestations" and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675; editing Osiris and Urania: Milton and Climates of Reading, for Duquesne University Press (Pittsburgh, PA); Toleration and Milton's "Peculiar" Nation.