Dr. Ben Faber

Associate Professor of English


Phone: (905) 648-2139   Ext:4400

Email: bfaber@redeemer.ca

Office: 239B

Programs: English Literature, English Writing

Education

D.Phil. (1992), University of Oxford
顿颈蝉蝉别谤迟补迟颈辞苍:听The Poetics of Subversion and Conservatism: Satire ca. 1640-1649.

B.A. Hons (1987), English, McMaster University.

Courses

  • Ways of Reading: Fiction (ENG-103)
  • Western Culture & Tradition II (HUM-120)
  • The British Novel (ENG-257)
  • History of Literary Criticism (ENG-315)
  • Nineteenth-Century English Literature I: Romantic (ENG-345)
  • Shakespeare (ENG-361)
  • Milton (ENG-448)

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Dr. Ben Faber has published essays and presented papers on William Shakespeare, John Milton (1608-1674), Joseph Hall (1574-1656), Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), and Henry Alline (1748-1784).  He teaches courses in the department on Shakespeare, Milton, The History of Literary Criticism, The British Novel and British Literature 1660-1830.

Research Interests

  • Early-modern non-dramatic English literature (esp. Milton, Marvell)
  • Shakespeare and theory
  • Hermeneutics
  • Pedagogy

Recent Publications

鈥淟anguage and Literature in Reformed Perspective.鈥 In Academy Regained, ed. Russ Kosits. Sioux Center: Dordt Press, forthcoming.

聽鈥淥utrage from Lifeless Things: Theodicy and the Anthropogenic Effects of the Fall in Paradise Lost.鈥 In Christian Environmentalism and Human Responsibility in the 21st Century: Questions of Stewardship and Accountability, ed. Katherine M. Quinsey. New York: Routledge, 2023.

鈥淐ovenant and Pedagogy.鈥 International Journal of Christianity and Education. 24.3 (2020).

鈥淢anifesting the Soul in Andrew Marvell鈥檚 鈥極n a Drop of Dew鈥.鈥 Early Modern Literary Studies 19.1 (2016).

鈥淭he Art of Divine Meditation in George Herbert鈥檚 The Temple.鈥 Christianity and Literature 66:1 (2016).