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Visiting Assistant Professor
David Ainsworth's teaching interests focus on the Medieval and
Renaissance periods, and particularly the works of John Milton, but his
other wide-ranging interests include modern mystery, fantasy and science
fiction, as well as the structure of myth and the dynamics of power. He
is also interested in establishing links, whether between Renaissance
literature and central questions of belief in today's world, or between
the process of literary analysis and the process of mathematical
analysis. His current work in the classroom includes an intensive
examination of fool and trickster-figures and their roles, and the use
of mystery-solving techniques as an approach to talking about the
analysis of literature and the composition of a reasoned argument.
Ainsworth's wide range of interests matches his broad teaching
experience. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Beloit College and the College of the Holy Cross.
His first book, Milton and the Spiritual Reader: Reading and Religion
in Seventeenth-Century England, is forthcoming from Routledge Press;
for his next project, he is contemplating a larger study of the
foundations of structures of order in Early Modern England.
Ainsworth received a B.A. in English and a B.S. in Mathematics from the
University of Arizona and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
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