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Institute of English and American Studies
Institute of English and American Studies

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Dr. Thomas Matthew Vozar

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Research Associate, research project

Early Modern British Literature

Address

Universität Hamburg
Faculty of Humanities
SLM II
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Überseering 35, #23
22297 Hamburg

Office

Room: 07048

Office hours

list of office hours

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838-2586

Key aspects of activity

  • Early modern literary and intellectual culture
  • Milton
  • Classical reception
  • Neo-Latin studies
  • History of scholarship
  • Book history
  • Orientalism
  • Shakespeare and Renaissance drama

Academic Positions

October 2021–Present Postdoctoral Fellow funded by the Excellence Strategy of the University of Hamburg
September 2018–August 2021 Postgraduate Teacher in English, Classics, and History at the University of Exeter
September 2014–May 2015 Graduate Instructor in Latin at the University of Pennsylvania

Education

September 2017–February 2021 PhD in English, University of Exeter
September 2013–August 2015 MA in Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
September 2009–May 2013 BA High Honors in Latin, Minor in Ancient Greek, Oberlin College
September–December 2012 Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome

Research Interest

  • Early modern literary and intellectual culture
  • Milton
  • Classical reception
  • Neo-Latin studies
  • History of scholarship
  • Book history
  • Orientalism
  • Shakespeare and Renaissance drama

Current Project

Humanism and Politics in the English Revolution, 1640–1660. Excellence Strategy research project

Publications

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

“Henry Oldenburg and a Brief Notice of Milton’s Of Education in the Philosophical Transactions,” forthcoming in Milton Quarterly [2,800 words].

“Timor Dei and Timor Idololatricus from Reformed Theology to Milton,” Reformation 26.1 (2021), 62–72.

“An English Translation of Longinus in the Lansdowne Collection at the British Library,” The Seventeenth Century 35.5 (2020), 625–650.

“Sir Henry Wotton’s Copy of Portus’ Aphthonius, Hermogenes, & Dionysius Longinus,” Notes & Queries 66.3 (2019), 473–474.

“On the Fifth Stanza of the Carmen Saeculare,” Latomus: Revue d’études latines 78.1 (2019), 186–191.

“Schneider’s Conjecture on Bellum Alexandrinum 13.5,” Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 161.2 (2018), 238–239.

“Body-Mind Aporia in the Seizure of Othello,” Philosophy and Literature 36.1 (2012), 183–186.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Edited Collections

“Ps.-Longinus, Dionysius Cassius. Addenda et Corrigenda,” forthcoming in Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries vol. 14, eds. Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Julia Haig Gaisser, and James Hankins (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies) [6,200 words].

“Milton, Sublime Style, and the Problem of Enthusiasm,” forthcoming in Milton’s Politics of Religion, eds. Neil Forsyth, John K. Hale, and Christophe Tournu (Bern: Peter Lang) [5,100 words].

“Ciceroniana of the Froben Press,” forthcoming in Cicero in Basel: Rezeptionsgeschichten aus einer Humanistenstadt / Cicero in Basel: Reception Histories from a Humanist City, ed. Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle (Berlin: De Gruyter) [4,500 words].

Book Reviews

“Classics in the 1700s,” review of Floris Verhaart, Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690–1750: Beyond the Ancients and the Moderns (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), forthcoming in Classical Review.

Review of Paul Botley and Máté Vince (eds.), The Correspondence of Isaac Casaubon in England, 4 vols. (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2018), Early Modern Literary Studies 21.2 (2020), 1–5.