Lloyd International Honors College

Dr. Christopher Hodgkins

English

Dr. Christopher Hodgkins (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1988) is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Atlantic World Studies in the University of North Carolina-Greensboro Department of English. He is author or editor of seven books—five on George Herbert—and is co-founder of the international George Herbert Society, which organizes Herbert events in Britain, Europe, and North America. With Robert Whalen, he co-edits The Digital Temple of George Herbert (Virginia/Rotunda 2013) and The Complete Works of George Herbert, which digitally captures, transcribes, and annotates each Herbert first edition, work which has earned them two NEH Scholarly Editions Grants, for 2009-2011 and 2015-2018. Hodgkins directs UNCG’s Atlantic World Research Network and manages UNCG’s membership in the Folger Institute of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC; he has published a book on the British imperial imagination, as well as articles on Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton, Drake and Pocahontas; and currently he is completing a textbook on the literary study of the Bible. His past awards include NEH, Mellon, and Pew grants. Hodgkins regularly offers courses in Shakespeare, Milton, 17th-Century Literature, the Metaphysical Poets, and Literary Study of the Bible. In Fall 2015, with Dr. Hope Howell Hodgkins, he led an Honors Abroad course, Literary London: A Week’s Walk through History.