Loyola University Chicago

Department of English

Christopher Kendrick

Professor Emeritus

 
  • Office Location: Crown Center 463
  • Phone Number: 773.508.2248
  • E-mail: ckendri@luc.edu

Degrees

  • BA, University of Illinois at Urbana (1975)
  • PhD, Yale University (1981)

Program Areas

  • Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century British Literature
  • Marxism and Cultural Theory

Research Interests

  • John Milton
  • Utopia and Science Fiction

Selected Publications

Books:

  • Utopia, Carnival, and Commonwealth in Renaissance England. U of Toronto P, 2004.
  • Milton:  A Study in Ideology and Form. Routledge, 1986.

Articles:

  • "Monster Realism and Uneven Development in China Mieville's The Scar." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy, vol. 50, no. 2, Summer 2009,  pp. 258-275.
  • "UnAmerican Milton:  Milton's Reputation and Reception in the Early United States." University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 77, no. 3, Summer 2008, pp. 903-922.
  • "Anachronism in Lycidas." ELH: English Literary History, vol. 64, 1997, pp. 1-40.

Works-in-Progress:

  • I'm currently researching and writing a longer project on Milton and Renaissance historicism.