Holly Faith Nelson, PhD

Awards & Honors

• SSHRC Explore Research Grant (via TWU Internal Grants), Co-Applicant, “ConVersing/ConServing: Ecopoiesis and Place-Sensitive Knowledge in the TWU Ecosystem Study Area,” January 2023.
• SSHRC Exchange Grant (via TWU Internal Grants), Principal Investigator, “Traversing Time and Space as a Form of Psycho-Spiritual Resilience in Early Modern Christian Literature.”
• Plenary Address: “Traversing Time and Space as a Form of Psycho-Spiritual Resilience in the Works of Henry Vaughan and Margaret Cavendish,” 25th Annual Vaughan Association Conference, Brecon, Wales, UK, May 5, 2022.
• Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Awards to Scholarly Publishing Program, publication grant for the publication of Besieged: The Siege in Early Modern British Literature, 1642-1722 by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2021
• Plenary Address, “What Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature Has to Teach Us About Living in a Polarized Age,” Christianity and Literature Study Group (allied with ACCUTE), Congress, UBC, June 3, 2019
• Invited Lecture, “Transatlantic Vaughan,” The Vaughan Association, 24th Annual Colloquium, Breconshire, Wales, UK, April 28, 2019
• Vice President, Mennonite Faith and Learning Society (2018-Present)
• Invited Lecture, “Reassembling the Scottish Self in Canada through Texts and Objects,” Centre for Scottish Studies, Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre, April 8, 2017
• SSHRC Connections Grant. Co-Applicant, World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Dialogues and Diasporas (with Leith Davis, Principal Investigator, and Scott Mackenzie, Co-Applicant) (2017)
• SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2011-2014). Principal Investigator of "The Spaces of War: Representations of Combat Zones in British Literature, 1642-1715"
• Canadian Society for the Study of Women in Education Recognition Award for the Gender Studies Institute (2012)
• Invited Lecturer, "The Edge of Scottish Romanticism: James Hogg, 'king o' the mountain and fairy school.'" Joseph Schick Lecture Series: Literature, Languages, or Lexicography prior to 1900, November 15, 2012 (with Sharon Alker)
• Visiting Scholar, English Department, University of British Columbia (2009-2010)
• SSHRC Research Workshop Grant. Collaborator: "Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture" (2008)
• TWU Research Grant: Principal Investigator: Gender and Religion Research Symposium (2008)
• Invited Lecturer, "The Other Scottish Bard: James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd," Centre for Scottish Studies at Simon Fraser University SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia (2008)
• Priscilla and Stanford Reid Trust Grant (with Lynn Szabo) (2007)
• Invited Symposium Conferee, "Liberty, Monarchy, Regicide: The Trial and Execution of Charles I," Liberty Fund Conference, Cleveland, Ohio (2007)
• Invited Roundtable Speaker: "From the Monarch to the Mob: Editing Early-Modern Religious Works," Roundtable on Scholarly Editing, Christianity and Literature Study Group, ACCUTE, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (2006)
• SSHRC Small Research Grant (SSHRC Institutional Grant) (2006)
• Davis Distinguished Teaching Award (2005)
• SSHRC Small Research Grant (SSHRC Institutional Grant) (2005)
• SSHRC Small Research Grant (SSHRC Institutional Grant) (2004)
• SSHRC Small Research Grant (SSHRC Institutional Grant) (2003)
• Professional Research Fund Travel Grant (2002)

Recent Publications

Books

• Besieged: Early Modern British Siege Literature, 1642-1722 (authored with Sharon Alker). Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021.
• Borderlands: The Art and Scholarship of Louise Imogen Guiney. Bangor, Wales: The Vaughan Association, 2021 (edited with Jonathan Nauman)
• Games of War in Early Modern English Literature: From Shakespeare to Swift. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019 (edited with Jim Daems)
• Topographies of the Imagination: New Approaches to Daniel Defoe. New York: AMS Press, 2014 (edited with Katherine Ellison and Kit Kincade).
• French Women Authors: The Significance of the Spiritual (1400-2000). Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2013 (edited with Kelsey L. Haskett).
• Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012 (edited with Sharon Alker and Leith Davis).
• Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory. Waterloo, ON:Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010 (edited with Lynn Szabo and Jens Zimmermann).
• James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace: Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009 (edited with Sharon Alker).
• Eikon Basilike with selections from Eikonoklastes. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2005 (edited with Jim Daems).
• Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2004 (edited with Donald R. Dickson).
• Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose. Peterborogh, ON: Broadview Press, 2000 (edited with Alan Rudrum and Joseph Black)

Selected Articles

• “Defoe and War.” The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe. Edited by J. A. Downie and Nicholas Seager. Forthcoming Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022 (with Sharon Alker).
• “Louise Imogen Guiney and Late Romanticism: Faith, Fairies, and Scientific Fact in Brownies and Bogles.” Borderlands: The Art and Scholarship of Louise Imogen Guiney. Ed. Jonathan Nauman and Holly Faith Nelson, 143-61. Bangor, Wales: The Vaughan Association, 2021.
• “Discordia Concors: The Poetry of Louise Imogen Guiney.” Borderlands: The Art and Scholarship of Louise Imogen Guiney. Ed. Jonathan Nauman and Holly Faith Nelson, 70-104. Bangor, Wales: The Vaughan Association, 2021 (with Katharine Bubel).
• “The Scot and Scotland in the Novels of Daniel Defoe.” Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries 12, no. 1 (2021): 55-67 (with Sharon Alker).
• “Balancing Relatability and Alterity in Teaching Scottish Restoration Literature: A Case Study.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 50 (2021): 217-30 (with Sharon Alker).
• “Anon. The Progress of the Christian Pilgrim.” The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. Edited by April London. Forthcoming Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• “Literary Print Culture in Restoration Scotland.” The International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century. Edited by Leith Davis and Janet Sorenson,73-95. Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2021 (with Sharon Alker).
• “Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross,” “Anne Murray, Lady Haskett,” “Lilias Gillespie Skene,” and “William Lithgow.” Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edited by Caroline McCracken-Flesher et al. Forthcoming Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
• “James Hogg.” Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edited by Caroline McCracken-Flesher et al. Forthcoming Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022 (with Sharon Alker). 
• Virtual Reality, Roleplay, and World Building in Margaret Cavendish’s Literary War Games.” Games of War in Early Modern English Literature: From Shakespeare to Swift. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 117-37 (with Sharon Alker).
• “Spiritual and Social Virtue in the Moderate Lay Sermons of James Hogg,” Studies in Hogg and his World 27-28 (2019): 48-70 (with Sharon Alker).
• “Collaboration in the Humanities: The Art of the Academic Dance.” Eighteenth Century Fiction 30, no. 4 (Summer 2018): 581-92 (with Sharon Alker).
• “Scottish Literature, Periodization and the Liberal Arts Curriculum.” Studies in Scottish Literature 43, no. 1 (2017): 37-45 (with Sharon Alker).
• "A Good Christian, and a Good Natural Philosopher': Margaret Cavendish's Theory of the Soul(s) in the Early Enlightenment." Studies in Philology 113, no. 4 (Fall 2016): 947-68.
• “Third and Fourth Wave Feminism(s) and the Christian University.” Facing Challenges: Feminism in Christian Higher Education and Other Places. Edited by Allyson Jule and Bettina Tate Pedersen. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2015. 21-35 (with Alethea Cook).
• "Transatlantic Vaughan: The 'Translation' of Silex Scintillans in Early American Periodicals." Love, Knowledge and the University. Edited by John S. North. Waterloo: North Waterloo Academic Press, 2015. 91-106. 
• "'Perfect according to their Kind': Deformity, Defect and Disease in the Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish. The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Chris Mounsey. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2014 (with Sharon Alker). 31-47.
• "Daniel Defoe and the Scottish Church." Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries 5, no. 1 (2013): 1-19 (with Sharon Alker).
• "(Re)writing Spaces of War: Daniel Defoe and Early Modern Siege Narratives.” Topographies of the Imagination: New Approaches to Daniel Defoe. Edited by Katherine Ellison, Kit Kincade, and Holly Faith Nelson. New York: AMS Press, 2013 (with Sharon Alker).
• "Spiritum nolite extinguere': Reading Religion in the Works of Christine de Pizan." French Women Authors: The Significance of the Spiritual (1400-2000). Edited by Kelsey L. Haskett and Holly Faith Nelson. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2013. 15-32 (with Katharine Bubel).
• "Transatlanticism and Beyond: Robert Burns and the World Wide Web." Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture. Edited by Sharon Alker, Leith Davis, and Holly Faith Nelson. Aldershot: Ashgate 2012. 247-60 (with Sharon Alker).
• "Teaching Oroonoko as a War Narrative." Approaches to Teaching Behn's “Oroonoko.” Edited by Cynthia Richards and Mary Ann O'Donnell. New York: Modern Language Association, 2013. 85-91 (with Sharon Alker).
• "Writing Science Fiction in the Shadow of War:  Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World." Expanding Worlds: Travel, The New Science, and Literary Discourse. Edited by Judy Hayden. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012 (with Sharon Alker).
• "Hogg and Working-Class Writing." The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg. Edited by Ian Duncan and Douglas S. Mack. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. 55-63 (with Sharon Alker).
• "Dis/ability, Medicine, and Metaphysics in the works of Lady Anne Conway." Science and Women's Literary Discourse in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Paving the Way for Frankenstein. Ed. Judy Hayden. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 65-83 (with Sharon Alker).
• "The Subaltern in Academia: Advancing an Ethos of Equity." In Academic Apartheid: Waging the Adjunct War. Edited by Sylvia M DeSantis. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 27-29.
• "Caroline Devotional Poets" and “John Donne.” Dictionary of Christian Spirituality. Gen. Ed. Glen G. Scorgie. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, 2011.
• "Pamphlet Wars: Tropological Union in Defoe's Anglo-Scottish Works." Form, Function, Genre: Positioning Daniel Defoe's Non-Fiction." Edited by Aino Mäkikalli and Andreas Mueller. Newcastle upon Tyne:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 39-58 (with Sharon Alker).
• "From Scotland to the Holy Land: Renegotiating Scottish Identity in the Pilgrim Narrative of William Lithgow." Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 19, nos. 1-2 (2009/2010): 176-202 (with Sharon Alker).
• "Upon the Rack": George Herbert, William Cowper, and the Hermeneutic of Dis/ability." George Herbert Journal 32, nos. 1-2 (2008/2009): 54-67 (with Laura E. Ralph). [An earlier version of the article was published in The Cowper and Newton Bulletin, 8.1 (2009): 8-18].
• "Trauma and Transcendence: An Introduction," Through A Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory. Edited by Holly Faith Nelson, Lynn R. Szabo and Jens Zimmermann. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010. xv-xxvii.
• "Defoe 2.0: An Editorial Introduction," Digital Defoe 1.1 (2009) (with Katherine Ellison).
• "The Science of Nature: Colonial Resistance in Hogg's 'The Pongos,'" James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace.  Edited by Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009. 201-17 (with Sharon Alker).
• "Memory, Monuments, and Melancholy Genius in Margaret Cavendish's Bell in Campo. Eighteenth Century Fiction 21, no. 1 (Fall 2008): 13-35 (with Sharon Alker).
• “Staging the Shifting Nation: Macbeth, the Jacobean Scot, and the Politics of the Union.” Studies in English Literature 47, no. 2 (Spring 2007): 379-401 (with Sharon Alker). [Reprinted in Shakespeare Criticism, vol. 128 (Gale / Centage, 2012).]
• John Donne. In "Milton and Poetry, 1603-1660." The Year's Work in English Studies (Oxford University Press / The English Association) 87 (2008): 559-569.
• "Historical Consciousness and the Politics of Translation in the Psalms of Henry Vaughan." Studies in Philology 104, no. 4 (2007): 501-25. [Reprinted in John Donne and the Metaphysical Poets. Bloom's Modern Critical Views (New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 2010).]
• John Donne, "Milton and Poetry, 1603-1660." The Year's Work in English Studies (Oxford University Press / The English Association) 86 (2007): 514-26.
• "James Hogg as Working Class Autobiographer: Tactical Maneuvers in a 'Memoir of the Author's Life." Studies in Hogg and His World 18 (2007): 63-80 (with Sharon Alker). [Reprinted in James Hogg, 1770-1735.Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Gale / Centage, 2012).]
• "The 'Second Sex' in Cyberspace: Decoding the Discourse of Techno-Utopianism." MP: An International Feminist Online Journal 1, no. 5 (1007) (with Christina Belcher and Alma Barranco-Mendoza).
• "'Make all things new! And without end!' The Eschatological Vision of Henry Vaughan.” Scintilla: The Journal of the Usk Valley Vaughan Association 10 (2006): 222-35.
• John Donne. In "Milton and Poetry, 1603-1660." The Year's Work in English Studies (Oxford University Press / The English Association) 85 (2006): 495-506.
• "Nascent Christian Feminism in Medieval and Early Modern Britain." Being Feminist, Being Christian: Essays from Academia. Edited by Allyson Jule and Bettina Tate Pedersen. New York. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 157-80.
• "'Ghastly in the Moonlight': Wordsworth, Hogg and the Anguish of War." Studies in Hogg and His World 15 (2005): 76-89. (with Sharon Alker).
• John Donne. In "Milton and Poetry, 1603-1660." The Year's Work in English Studies. (Oxford University Press / The English Association) 84 (2005): 515-23.
• "Biblical Structures in Silex Scintillans: The Poetics and Politics of Intertextuality." Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum. Edited by Donald R. Dickson and Holly Faith Nelson. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004. 165-91.
• “Alicia D'Anvers” and “Lady Sarah Piers.” In New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.
• "Gender, Nature and Politics in the Writings of Henry Vaughan." Scintilla: The Journal of the Usk Valley Vaughan Association 7 (2003): 99-115.
• "'Worms in the dull earth of ignorance': Female Authorship and Zoosemiotics in the Works of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle." English Language Notes (2002):13-25.
• "Marginal Voices and Transgressive Borders in Hogg's Epic Queen Hynde." Studies in Hogg and His World 12 (2001): 25-39 (with Sharon Alker).

 Book Reviews

• Review of Ashley Marshall, Political Journalism in London, 1695-1720. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2020. The Journal of British Studies. Forthcoming 2022.
• Review of Tita Chico, The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018). Forthcoming The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats, 53.1 (2020): 64-66.
• Review of Donald R. Dickson, Alan Rudrum, and Robert Wilcher, eds. The Works of Henry Vaughan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Forthcoming Renaissance Quarterly 73.2 (2020): 768-70.
• Review of Deborah Boyle, The Well-Ordered Universe: The Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Forthcoming Early Modern Literary Studies 21.1 (2019).
• Review of David Cunning, Cavendish. Early Modern Literary Studies (EMLS), 20.2 (2018): 1-4.
• Review of Barbara M. Benedict, “Curiosity and the Occult: The Ambiguities of Science in Eighteenth-Century British Literature,” Jacqueline D. Wernimont, “Poetico-Mathematical Women and The Ladies’ Diary,” and Ofer Gal, “Imaginary Voyages: The New Science and Its Search for a Vantage Point (Or: How the Imagination Was Used to Domestic the Exotic),” in The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science. Ed. Howard Marchitello and Evelyn Tribble. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. The Sciblerian and the Kit-Cats 51.2 (Spring 2019).
• Review of Misty G. Anderson, Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Enthusiasm, Belief, and the Borders of the Self. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries 9.1 (2017).
• Review of Meiko O’Halloran, James Hogg and British Romanticism: A Kaleidoscopic Art. Houndmills, Basingstoke, 2016. The British Association for Romantic Studies Review 49 (2017). http://www.bars.ac.uk/review/index.php/barsreview/....
• Review of Lisa Walters, Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Science and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Forthcoming  Early Modern Literary Studies 2016.
• Review of Sean Lawrence, Forgiving the Gift: The Philosophy of Generosity in Marlowe and Shakespeare. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2012.  Early Modern Literary Studies 17.1 (2014).
• Review of Scotland and the Nineteenth Century World. Ed. Gerrard Carruthers, David Goldie, and Alastair Renfrew. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. Scottish Historical Review 93 (2014): 158-60.
• Review of Robert Burns in Global Culture. Ed. Murray Pittock. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2011. Scottish Literary Review 4.2 (2012) 178-182.
• Review of James Hogg, Midsummer Night Dreams and Related Poems, ed. Jill Rubenstein, compl. Gillian Hughes, with Meiko O'Halloran. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. Studies in Hogg and His World 22 (2012): 105-108.
• Review of Kate McLoughlin, Authoring War: The Literary Representation from the Iliad to Iraq. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. War, Literature and the Arts 23 (2001):
• Review of Walter Scott, The Betrothed, ed. J. B. Ellis, with J. H. Alexander and David Hewitt. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Studies in Hogg and his World 21, (2011): 118-120.
• Review of Chantel M. Lavoie, Collecting Women: Poetry and Lives, 1700-1780, Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2009. Aphra Behn Online: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830 1.1 (2011).
• Review of The Collected Letters of James Hogg, Volume III, 1832-1835, ed. Gillian Hughes et al. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. Scottish Literary Review (2011).
• Review of Jason McElligott, Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2007. Royal Stuart Journal, 1(2009):59-61.
• Review of Reid Barbour, Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Seventeenth-Century News 63, nos. 3-4 (2005): 161-164.
• Review of Gillian Hughes, ed. A Series of Lay Sermons on Good Principles and Good Breeding. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997. SCOTIA: Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Studies 29 (2005): 61-62.

 Work in Progress

• “The Uncollected Works of James Hogg” (the final volume in the Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg [Edinburgh University Press]; co-edited with Sharon Alker).
• “Christianity and (Proto)Feminism in Early Modern Women’s Lives and Works, 1450-1800” (co-edited with Adrea Johnson)