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Ian F. MacInnes

Howard L. McGregor Professor of Humanities

Education
  • B.A., Swarthmore College
  • M.A., University of Virginia
  • Ph.D., University of Virginia
Courses
  • Animal Tales, Us vs. Them
  • Monsters Within
  • Myth and Legend
  • Shakespeare
  • Age of Elizabeth
  • Voices of Liberty: Milton and His Age
  • Redeeming Eve: Early Modern Women’s Writing
  • Pre-modern Ecologies
  • Advanced Writing
Areas of Interest

Ian’s scholarship focuses on representations of animals and the environment in Renaissance literature, particularly in Shakespeare.

Publications

He has published essays on topics such as horse breeding and geohumoralism in Henry V, on invertebrate bodies in Hamlet, and on animal networks in early modern England. Along with his co-host, a medieval art historian, he has a podcast called Real Fantastic Beasts on medieval and early modern animals. He is also the senior editor for Unfortunate Creatures, a peer-reviewed, crowd-sourced site on pre-modern natural disaster narratives. His long-running website and webapp, Ian’s English Calendar, calculates dates for scholars of English history and Literature.