Dr Crawford Gribben, B.A. (Strathclyde), M.A. (Dublin), Ph.D. (Strathclyde), F.R.Hist.S., F.T.C.D.
Long Room Hub Associate Professor in Early Modern Print Culture
Director of the inter-disciplinary and multi-institutional doctoral programme, ‘Texts, Contexts, Cultures,’ and Director of Research in the School of English (2010-2012)
Before taking up my current position, I was a research fellow in the Centre for Irish-Scottish and Comparative Studies at Trinity College Dublin (2000-2004) and was a lecturer in Renaissance literature and culture in the English and American Studies department at the University of Manchester (2004-2007). I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2004) and a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin (2011).
Research:
I am a literary and cultural historian whose work concentrates on the development and dissemination of religious ideas, especially in terms of apocalyptic and millennial thought, in the print cultures of Puritanism and evangelicalism. My work on these themes emphasizes the often unstable variety of religious cultures, and has appeared in popular formats in such journals as Books & Culture and The American Interest, and in academic formats. My current projects in the earlier period include writing John Owen and English Puritanism (under contract to Oxford University Press, 2014) and editing Dublin: Renaissance City of Literature (with Kathleen Miller); and my current projects in the later period include writing Survival and resistance in evangelical America (with Scott Spurlock).
Monographs:
- Evangelical millennialism in the trans-Atlantic world, 1500-2000 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
- Writing the rapture: Prophecy fiction in evangelical America (Oxford University Press, 2009)
- God's Irishmen: Theological debates in Cromwellian Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2007)
- The puritan millennium: Literature and theology, 1550-1682 (Four Courts, 2000)
Edited collections:
- Left Behind and the evangelical imagination, co-editor with Mark Sweetnam (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2011)
- Literature and the Scottish reformation, co-editor with David G. Mullan (Ashgate, 2009)
- Enforcing reformation in Ireland and Scotland, 1550-1700, co-editor with Elizabethanne Boran (Ashgate, 2006)
- Protestant millennialism, evangelicalism and Irish society, 1790-2005, co-editor with Andrew Holmes (Palgrave, 2006)
- Expecting the end: Millennialism in social and historical context, co-editor with Kenneth Newport (Baylor University Press, 2006)
- Prisoners of hope? Aspects of evangelical millennialism in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1880, co-editor with Timothy C. F. Stunt (Paternoster, 2004)
Supervision:
I am currently supervising six doctoral theses:
- Legal antiquity in early seventeenth-century Scotland and Ireland
- Royalist women’s writing, 1642-60
- Print culture and plague, 1666-67
- Antinomianism in the trans-Atlantic world, 1630-1690
- The millennial theology of Robert Govett
- Apocalyptic language in the Northern Ireland “troubles”
I am also supervising two IRCHSS-funded post-doctoral projects:
- Christian Zionism and English national identity, 1590-1918 (2011-2013)
- Memorialising the “Killing Times”: History, religion and nation in pre-Enlightenment Scotland (2011-2014)
I am particularly interested in supervising theses in the literary culture of Puritanism and in early modern book history. As director of “Texts, Contexts, Cultures,” I am interested in hearing from anyone who is considering PhD research in the arts and humanities in an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional context.
Teaching:
I teach undergraduate courses in “John Milton and the revolutionary imagination”; “Reading the Renaissance Bible”; “The Book”; and “Narrative and identity in modern Scottish literature.” As director of Texts, Contexts, Cultures, I teach postgraduate courses in “History of the Book”; “Critical thinking 1500-1800”; “Critical thinking 1800-2000.”
Contact:
Crawford Gribben
School of English,
Trinity College,
Dublin 2, IRELAND
Tel: + 353 1 896 3166
Fax: + 353 1 671 7114
e-mail: crawford.gribben@tcd.ie