Faculty in English
Melissa Caldwell
- Assistant Professor of English
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Melissa Caldwell’s teaching interests include the literary, philosophical, and religious texts of the early modern period as well as ethics and literature generally. Her research focuses on early modern intellectual history; the relationship between the history of ethics, early modern moral philosophy, and the so-called "Scientific Revolution"; the transmission, adaptation and influence of classical philosophy and literature on the early modern period; and religious and political polemical literature of the Reformation and the English Civil War. She has published an article in The Seventeenth Century on the Stoic concept of adiaphora in the work of prominent polemical literature of the 1640s including that of John Milton. She is currently preparing an article on the influence of theories of contrariety on notions of religious reform in the late sixteenth century and is working on a book-length project examining the influence of skepticism on the religious and moral thought of England from the 1520s to the 1640s.
