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Crawford Gribben

BA, PhD (Strathclyde) Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Print Culture in the School of English / School of Histories and Humanities
Director of Texts, Contexts, Cultures

B efore taking up my current position in the School of English / School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin , I taught for three years in English and American Studies at the University of Manchester, and for four years in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. I have also been a visiting lecturer at the University of Lausanne and the University of Toronto, and a visiting scholar at Westminster College, Cambridge. I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

As Director of Texts, Contexts, Cultures , I am interested in hearing from anyone who is interested in pursuing PhD research in an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional context.

Research and Teaching Interests:

Trinity College Dublin is a particularly vibrant place in terms of literary, historical and cultural research. With a number of other colleagues, I am a member of research clusters in early modern studies, in millennial studies and in Irish-Scottish studies, and work across a number of disciplinary boundaries, especially literature and history. My own research interests centre on two major themes: the literary cultures of Puritanism and Evangelicalism; and the history of apocalyptic and millennial thought.

My interest in the literary cultures of Puritanism and Evangelicalism and the history of apocalyptic and millennial thought emphasizes the often unstable variety of religious cultures. This is reflected in a sample of my recent publications:

Books:

• Evangelical millennialism in the trans-Atlantic world, 1550-2000 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009, forthcoming).
• Writing the Rapture: Prophecy fiction in evangelical America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, forthcoming).
• "Irish and Welsh Puritanism," in The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
• God ' s Irishmen: Theological debates in Cromwellian Ireland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
• "Protestant millennialism, political violence and the Ulster conflict," Irish Studies Review 15:2 (2007).
• "The literary culture of the Scottish reformation ," Review of English Studies 57:228 (2006).
• "Antichrist in Ireland: Protestant millennialism and Irish studies," in Crawford Gribben and Andrew R. Holmes (eds), Protestant millennialism, evangelicalism and Irish society, 1790-2000 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006), pp. 1-30.
• "Rhetoric, fiction and theology: James Ussher and the death of Jesus Christ ," The Seventeenth Century 20:1 (2005), pp. 53-76.
• "James Hogg, Scottish Calvinism and literary theory," Scottish Studies Review 5:2 (2004).
• The puritan millennium: Literature and theology, 1550-1682 (Dublin: Four Courts, 2000; revised edition, Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2008).

Articles:

I founded a series of annual millennial studies conferences which began in Dublin in 2003-2004, moved to Oxford in 2005, and met in Liverpool in 2006 and 2007. I am also an associate scholar of the Centre for Millennialism Studies at Liverpool Hope University. Papers from these colloquia have been published in a number of volumes I have edited, including:

• Expecting the end: Millennialism in social and historical context , co-editor with Kenneth Newport (Baylor, TX: Baylor University Press, 2006).
• Protestant millennialism, evangelicalism and Irish society, 1790-2000 , co-editor with Andrew R. Holmes (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006).
• Prisoners of hope? Aspects of evangelical millennialism in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1880 , co-editor with Timothy C. F. Stunt (Carlisle: Paternoster, 2004).

Currently supervising research degrees in the following areas:

I have supervised postgraduate theses on Renaissance literature and modern Irish and Scottish literature, including a PhD on George Herbert that completed in 2006. I would be pleased to hear from anyone interested in pursuing postgraduate study in any of my research areas. Prospective students can apply for PhD study through Texts, Contexts, Cultures initiative or through the Graduate Studies Office.

Contact Details:

• Crawford Gribben
  Department of English/School of Histories and Humanities
  Trinity College
  University of Dublin
  Dublin 2
  Ireland
• Tel: + 353 1 896 3166.
• Fax: + 353 1 671 7114.
• e-mail: crawford.gribben@tcd.ie