• Introduction to Literary Study
• The Epic Foundations of Western Literature
• Poetic Occasions
• Spenser and Milton
• Spenser’s Faerie Queene and the Varieties of Literary Imitation (seminar)

Dan received his BA from Brandeis University and his PhD from Princeton University. He specializes in early modern English poetry and drama, especially Spenser and Shakespeare. His current work focuses on late Elizabethan and early modern Jacobean imitations of the Roman poet Ovid. His teaching interests include the Bible as literature, the epic tradition, early modern poetry of all descriptions, and the modern tradition as it relates to the past. He writes Spenserian stanzas, believe it or not, for fun.