Prof. Glimp specializes in Renaissance English literature. Most of his work has explored how English authors of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries engaged aspects of Renaissance moral and political philosophy, though he also has interests in contemporary literary and social theory. He has recently completed a project on discourses of security and the genres of emergency in the Renaissance. He has begun another project with a working title of 'Provisional Justice: Valuing People in the English Renaissance,' focusing on how literary texts represent the processes through which governmental infrastructures both make and unmake worlds. Prof. Glimp is also developing a research agenda drawing on computational methods for literary and cultural study, focusing specifically on how political concepts developed and proliferated across the sixteenth and seventeenth-centuries in England.
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English Renaissance literature, political theories of security and risk, discourses of value and personhood in the English Renaissance, computational approaches to literary study, data science and literature
