Richard Strier

Richard Strier is the Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of English Language and Literature. His life-long project is to bring together two modes of literary study that have traditionally been seen as antagonistic: formalism and historicism. He is deeply interested in the intellectual history of the early modern period, especially theological and political ideas. His most recent book, The Unrepentant Renaissance from Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton (University of Chicago Press, 2011), was awarded the 2011 Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for Literary Criticism. Strier is also editor of the journal Modern Philology.