Professor
Director of Micah House
stump@slu.edu
Humanities 229
314.977.3009

Dr. Stump received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1978. He is the Director of Saint Louis University's Micah House program and his research interests include the Bible, Renaissance Literature, and Edmund Spenser. He has recently finished editing a special journal issue of Explorations in Renaissance Culture.

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Cornell University English (1978)
M.A. Cornell University English (1974)
B.A. Grinnell College English (1969)

TEACHING & RESEARCH INTERESTS
Renaissance literature and its classical and biblical backgrounds; Elizabeth I and the writers of her court; the Bible and literature; fantasy.

BOOKS
Primary author, Sir Philip Sidney: An Annotated Bibliography of Texts and Criticism (1554-1984). New York: G.K. Hall/Macmillan, 1994. Co-authors: Jerome S. Dees and C. Stuart Hunter.

Editor-in-Chief, 'Hamartia': The Concept of Error in the Western Tradition. Essays in Honor of John M. Crossett. Co-editors: J.A. Arieti, Lloyd Gerson, and Eleonore Stump. Texts and Studies in Religion, vol. 16. New York and Toronto: Edwin Mellen Press, 1983.

SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE
Images of Elizabeth I: A Quadricentennial Celebration. Edited by Donald Stump and Carole Levin. Explorations in Renaissance Culture 30 (Summer 2004): 158 pp.

ARTICLES
“Reforming the Greek Tragic Hero: Cross-Dressing in Sidney’s Old Arcadia.” In Teaching Early Modern Prose, edited by Margaret W. Ferguson and Susan Monta. Options for Teaching Series. New York: Modern Language Association. Forthcoming.

“Learning from Women: Sidney’s Critique of Humanist Education.” In Challenging Humanism, edited by Arthur F. Kinney and Ton Hoenselaars. Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press. Forthcoming.

“Abandoning the Old Testament: Shifting Paradigms for Elizabeth, 1578-82.” In Images of Elizabeth I: A Quadricentennial Celebration. Edited by Donald Stump and Carole Levin. Explorations in Renaissance Culture 30 (Summer 2004):89-109

“Fashioning Gender: Cross-Dressing in Spenser’s Legend of Britomart and Artegall.” Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual 15 (2001): 95-119.

“Marlowe's Travesty of Virgil: Dido and Elizabethan Dreams of Empire.” Comparative Drama 34 (Spring 2000): 79-107.

Articles on “Prayer” and “Trinity.” In A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature, ed. David Lyle Jeffrey. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, l992, pp. 626-31, 785-88. Co-author for “Trinity”: David L. Jeffrey.

“Edmund Spenser.” In The Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, vol. 1: Writers of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Detroit: Bruccoli, Clark, Layman, Gale Research, 1992, pp. 359-87. Reprinted in a revised and enlarged version in Sixteenth-Century British Nondramatic Writers, 3rd Series, ed. David A. Richardson. Detroit, Washington, D.C., and London: Gale Research, l996, pp. 228-63.

“The Two Deaths of Mary Stuart: Historical Allegory in Spenser's Book of Justice.” Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual 9 (1991): 81-105.

“Pride” and “Tragedy.” In The Spenser Encyclopedia, ed. A. C. Hamilton, Donald Cheny, W. F. Blissett, David Richardson, and William W. Barker. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990, pp. 556-57, 697.

“A Slow Return to Eden: Spenser on Women's Rule.” English Literary Renaissance 29 (Fall 1999): 401-21.

“The Sidney Database and Sir Philip Sidney: A Reference Guide.” Sidney Newsletter 10 (1989): 75-79.

“Sidney's Astrophil, Vanishing.” Renaissance Papers (1988), pp. 1-13.

“Hamlet, Cain and Abel, and the Pattern of Divine Providence.” Renaissance Papers (1985), pp. 27-38.

“Spenser's Inferno: The Order of the Seven Deadly Sins at the Palace of Pride.” Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 14 (1984): 203-18. Co-author: John M. Crossett.

“Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy: Four Indirect Routes from Athens to London.” In 'Hamartia': The Concept of Error in the Western Tradition. Essays in Honor of James M. Crossett. Texts and Studies in Religion, vol. 16. New York and Toronto: Edwin Mellen Press, l983, pp. 211-46.

“Isis Versus Mercilla: The Allegorical Shrines in Spenser's Legend of Justice.” Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual 3 (1982): 87-98.

“Sidney's Concept of Tragedy in the Apology and in the Arcadia.” Studies in Philology 79 (1982): 41-61.

“Britomart's Mock-Heroic Quest.” In Spenser and the Middle Ages, ed. David Richardson (Cleveland, 1976), pp. 157-66. Microfiche proceedings of the Spenser Sessions, International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1976.

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