Dr. Margaret Christian

Donald Stump is a gracious and encouraging mentor to undergraduates, graduate students, and junior colleagues. I met him at a conference in 1990 during my second year on the tenure track and have looked to his work ever since as a model of historically grounded literary criticism of my favorite poem, Edmund Spenser’s “Faerie Queene.” This book, published last year, is the culmination of his mastery of Elizabethan history and Spenser scholarship.