Post, Jonathan F S
Distinguished Professor
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Education

Interests

On the faculty at Yale in the late 1970s, Jonathan Post joined the UCLA English Department in 1980, where he has served as Chair of the Department and has twice been Interim Dean of Humanities. He is the founding and current Director of the UCLA Summer Shakespeare Program in Stratford and London.

His teaching and scholarly interests include seventeenth-century lyric poetry, especially Donne and the “Metaphysicals” (Herbert, Marvell, Vaughan, Crashaw), Milton, Shakespeare, the prose of Sir Thomas Browne, and related religious, cultural, and artifactual matters of the English Renaissance, and (modern) lyric poetry generally, especially the writings of Elizabeth Bishop. Current projects include editing the letters of Anthony Hecht, exploring continuities and connections between Renaissance and modern poetry, and reading and writing on poetry and the visual arts. He has held fellowships from The Folger Shakespeare Library, The National Endowment of the Humanities, The Bogliasco Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Selected Publications

Link to Selected Publications