Dr. Trevor Cook
Associate Professor, English
I specialize in Renaissance English literature and literary history. My current research project, The Boundaries of Ownership: Proprietary Authorship Before Copyright, examines the emergence of the plagiarism accusation in English; it asks what authors understood themselves to own before literary property was first vested in them by the Statute of Anne, 1710.
I also publish on John Milton, literary theory, popular literature, and the role of memory in crime fiction, and maintain an active interest in Canadian literature. My reviews of contemporary poetry have appeared in The Antigonish Review, The Malahat Review, The Dalhousie Review, and The Fiddlehead.
My primary teaching responsibilities at CUE include Shakespeare and the literature of the English Renaissance, as well as introductory courses in literature and composition. I am open to supervising an Independent Study (ENG 480) in detective stories, police procedurals, or crime fiction.
Education
- PhD, English, 2011, University of Toronto
- MA, English Language and Literature, 2004, Queen鈥檚 University
- BA (Hons), English, 2003, Crandall University
- Associate Student, 2002, Regent鈥檚 Park College, Oxford University
Select Publications
Cook, Trevor. 鈥淥thering Anger: Spenser鈥檚 Stoic Colonialism.鈥 The Comparatist, vol. 28, 2024, pp. 20-35.
鈥 鈥 鈥. 鈥溾榳rite or [do] nothing鈥: O鈥機onnor and Chandler鈥檚 Shared Discipline.鈥 Flannery O鈥機onnor Review, vol. 22, 2024, pp. 107-08.
鈥 鈥 鈥. 鈥淩aymond Chandler鈥檚 Gun Play: Chapters 14-16 of The Big Sleep as Three-Act Farce.鈥 ANQ, vol. 37, no. 3, 2024, pp. 423-25.
鈥 鈥 鈥. 鈥溾榃hat鈥檚 the story?鈥 Unravelling the Plot of Raymond Chandler鈥檚 The Big Sleep.鈥 Crime Fiction Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 2023, pp. 195-210.
鈥 鈥 鈥. 鈥淢erlin鈥檚 Warning.鈥 Queen鈥檚 Quarterly, vol. 130, no. 1, 2023, pp. 22-33.
鈥 鈥 鈥. 鈥淟ucid Dreaming: The Genre and Mode of The Man Who Was Thursday.鈥 The Chesterton Review, vol. 48, nos. 1/2, 2022, pp. 67-76.
鈥 鈥 鈥. 鈥淢ilton鈥檚 Chivalric Tragedy: The Persistence of Romance in Paradise Lost 9.鈥 Milton Studies, vol. 62, no. 1, 2020, pp. 136-58.聽
鈥 鈥 鈥. 鈥淪herlock Holmes and the Will to Forget.鈥 Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, vol. 57, no. 4, 2017, pp. 841-63.
鈥 鈥 鈥. 鈥溾榃ell, Heck鈥: Confounding Grace in Harper Lee鈥檚 To Kill a Mockingbird.鈥 Christianity and Literature, vol. 66, no. 4, 2017, pp. 656-74.
鈥 鈥 鈥. 鈥淐ollaboration and Proprietary Authorship: Shakespeare et al.鈥 Shakespeare Survey, vol. 67, edited by Peter Holland, Cambridge UP, 2014, pp. 44-59.
鈥 鈥 鈥. 鈥淭he KJV Plagiarized: Joseph Smith鈥檚 Mormon Scriptures.鈥 The King James Version across Borders and Centuries, edited by Angelica Duran, Duquesne UP, 2014, pp. 239-58.
鈥 鈥 鈥. 鈥淭he Scourge of Plagiary: Perversions of Imitation in the English Renaissance.鈥 University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 83, no. 1, 2014, pp. 39-63.
鈥 鈥 鈥. 鈥淭he Covering Cherub: Harold Bloom and Northrop Frye, 1959-69.鈥 Modern Language Studies, vol. 42, no. 2, 2013, pp.10-33.
鈥 鈥 鈥. 鈥溾楾he meate was mine鈥: Donne鈥檚 Satyre II and the Prehistory of Proprietary Authorship.鈥澛Studies in Philology,聽vol. 109 no. 1, 2012, pp. 103-31.