Dr. Julia MacDonald

B.A., University of Dallas, summa cum laude
M.A., University of Dallas
Ph.D., University of Dallas

Dr. Julia MacDonald specializes in Renaissance and Seventeenth century poetry, with particular interest in the poetry of Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson. She has a strong secondary interest in Anglo-Saxon heroic literature and the closely related heroic literature of Germany, skaldic poetry of Scandinavia, and sagas of Iceland.

Dr. MacDonald has published on the lyric poetry of Ben Jonson and on the response of ten black writers to 20th century American novelist William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner.

Dr. MacDonald is currently working on a book about the sense of time in Spenser and Shakespeare, and its implications for their choice of metric, genre, and figurative language.

Although her area of specialization is Renaissance literature, she teaches a wide variety of courses in the literature program:

Classical Literature 3360
Early British Literature to 1780, 2322 and 3430
World Literature 2210 and 2220
Short Story

Office: Language Building, Room 408B
Phone: 940.369.8775
Email: juliamacdonald@yahoo.com