Joe Loewenstein

Joe Loewenstein is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, serving as Director of Undergraduate Studies for Comparative Literature, Director of the Humanities Digital Workshop, and Director of the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities. He holds affiliate status in the Performing Arts Department. With a PhD from Yale University, his research focuses on Early Modern intellectual property, prosody, and poetics. His recent works include The Author's Due (2002) and Jonson and Possessive Authorship (2002), exploring the prehistory of copyright. Currently, he leads an Oxford University Press edition of Edmund Spenser’s Complete Works and is developing a project titled Accessorizing the Renaissance, examining material culture of the Early Modern Self.

He teaches courses on Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, skepticism in literature, and the cultural poetics of books. Courses include L14 3725: The Renaissance of Doubt and L14 514: Seminar: Accessorizing the Renaissance. His work bridges humanities and digital scholarship through initiatives like the Humanities Digital Workshop and interdisciplinary collaborations involving engineering students.