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Joseph Campana is the Alan Dugald McKillop Chair and Associate Professor of English at Rice University, specializing in Renaissance literature, poetry, and sexuality studies. He serves as Editor (1500-1659) for Studies in English Literature and directs the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS).
His research spans Renaissance literature, early modern poetics, gender/sexuality studies, animal studies, and environmental humanities. Campana authored The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity (2012) and poetry collections The Book of Faces (2005) and Natural Selections (2012, Iowa Poetry Prize winner). Current projects include The Child’s Two Bodies (Shakespeare/sovereignty), Renaissance Posthumanism (edited volume), and Live Oak (poetry).
He has edited special issues on "Staging Allegory," "After Sovereignty," and "Shakespeare’s Waters" for SEL, and co-organizes the HRC Rice Seminar "Waste: Histories and Futures."
His awards include:
- Isabel MacCaffrey Essay Prize
- MLA Crompton-Noll Award for LGBT Studies
- Iowa Poetry Prize
- NEA Fellowship
- HAA Fellowship
- Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship
Campana holds a Cornell PhD and publishes reviews in The Kenyon Review and Houston Chronicle, with recent essays on creaturely life in early modern England (bees, bleeding trees, crocodile tears).
