Patricia Crouch is a Ph. D. candidate in the Department of English, where she specializes in seventeenth-century English literature and history of the book. Her dissertation, "Reading the English Revolution: The Literature and Politics of Typological Interpretation," argues for the centrality of typological reading protocols and practices in shaping and authorizing the political discourses of the English Civil War, Interregnum, and Restoration periods. Two of her articles, on court masque and the English love lyric, have appeared in Atenea and Blackwell Publishing's Literature Compass. She has presented papers at the Modern Language Association annual convention, the International Milton Congress, and the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies. She also has contributed several book reviews to Sixteenth Century Journal and has received a number of awards for her scholarship and teaching.

As a CHAT graduate fellow, she will teach "The Bible in Early Modern England: Revolutions Textual, Religious, and Political" in spring 2008. The course, which will be open to students in the English and religion departments, will consider the place of the Bible as a material object, that is, as a physical book circulating in various forms, in the "making" of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English Reformation and Civil War. By incorporating a range of web and multimedia technologies, the course also will seek to foster critical thinking about the political and cultural significance of modern, electronic modes of textual transmission and reception.