EMC - The Early Modern Center

Faculty at the EMC

Ken Hiltner
(Ph.D., Harvard University, 2006)
Associate Professor, English Department
U. California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
tel: (805) 564-2304 (Home)
fax: (805) 893-4622
email: hiltner@english.ucsb.edu

Areas of Interest

Renaissance Literature
Literature and the Environment
Literary Theory
Greek, Roman, and German Literature
Philosophy (especially Continental)
The History of Ideas
The Future of Our Planet

Books and Recent Articles

Full List of Research Activities

Milton and Ecology. (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Renaissance Ecology: Imagining Eden in Milton's England. Edited and Introduced by Ken Hiltner (Duquesne University Press: forthcoming January 2008)

Current Projects

Current projects include a book and four articles:

On the Nature of Art

"Renaissance Literature and Our Contemporary Attitude Toward Global Warming"
"Dread, Technology, and Eve's Fall in Paradise Lost"
"Spencer, Empire, and Ecology"
"Environmental Protest Literature in Renaissance England"

Recent Courses Taught

Cultural Representations: Introduction to Literature and the Environment, English 122EN, Spring 2008 (Undergrad)

Milton: Milton and Ecology, English 162, Spring 2008 (Undergrad)

English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650, English 101, Winter 2008 (Undergrad)

Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory: Theories of Literature and the Environment, English 236, Winter 2008 (Grad)

Topics in Literature: Renaissance Pastoral, English 165MP, Winter 2007 (Undergrad)

Upper-Division Seminar: Metaphysical Poets, English 197, Winter 2007 (Undergrad)

Cultural Representations: Ecocriticism and the Writing of Nature, English 122EN, Fall 2006 (Undergrad)

Studies in Renaissance Literature: Milton and His Contemporaries, English 231, Fall 2006 (Grad)