Tamara A GoegleinProfessor of English

Ph.D. British Literature with Medieval Studies Certificate, Indiana University, 1989

M.A. British Literature, Indiana University, 1986

A.B. English, Earlham College, 1982 (with highest honors, PBK)

Academic Positions:

Professor of English, 1989-

English Department Chair, 2005-06, 1996-97

English Department Associate Chair, 2012-13, 2014-18

Secretary of the Faculty, 2004-06

Faculty Parliamentarian, 2019-2021

 

Administrative Positions:

Franklin & Marshall College, Interim Director, The Phillips Museum of Art, 2014-18

Franklin & Marshall College, Associate Dean of the Faculty, 2006-11

English Renaissance Literature and Intellectual History; Early Modern Emblematics and Visual Culture; Edmund Spenser, John Donne, William Shakespeare, John Milton.

Scholarly Monograph:

Edmund Spenser’s Emblematic Imagination (in progress)

Scholarly Collection:

Textual Respect and Situated Readings of Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne: Essays in Honor of Judith H. Anderson, eds. Tamara A. Goeglein and Jennifer C. Vaught (Berlin: MIP/ De Gruyter Brill, 2026).

Recent Academic Publications:

“The Emblematics of Solomon’s Temple: John Donne and the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (1568-72)” (forthcoming).

“Introduction” with Jennifer C. Vaught in Textual Respect and Situated Readings of Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne: Essays in Honor of Judith H. Anderson, eds. Tamara A. Goeglein and Jennifer C. Vaught (Berlin: MIP/ De Gruyter Brill, 2026), 1-19.

"Ruth Samson Luborsky and the Emblematics of The Shepheardes Calender," Spenser Studies 40 (2026): 69-81.

Book Review Essay (2500 words) of Kirsten Stirling, Picturing Divinity in John Donne's Writings (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2024), Kriticon Litterarum 52 (2025): 141-45.  

Emblematic Arks in John Donne’s ‘A Hymne to Christ’ and the Antwerp Polyglot Bible,” English Literary History 90.4 (2023): 933-53

"Emblematic Tabernacles in John Donne, John Milton, and the Antwerp Polyglot Bible," English Literary Renaissance, 52 (2022): 260-288.

Recent Paper Presentations:

"Remediation in Walter Crane's Illustrated Faerie Queene (1894-97)," Spenser at Kalamazoo, May 2022.

"John Donne's Emblematic Ark in "A Hymn to Christ," John Donne Society Meeting, February 2020.

Reviewer for Emblematica, Modern Philology, Renaissance Quarterly, Spenser Studies

"The Bible and Histories of Reading," Rare Book School, University of Pennsylvania,  2016

John Donne Society, Executive Board, 2014-2017

Society for Emblem Studies, Representative to the Renaissance Society of America, 2012-2015