Daniel Strait
Dr. Strait is professor of English at Asbury University, where he has taught for 12 years. His research interests include exploring the intersections of literature, philosophy, and religion, especially in Shakespearean drama and Renaissance literature in general. In 2005, he was invited to the University of Notre Dame to participate in a NEH Summer Seminar entitled "Religious Experience and English Poetry, 1633-1985," which set a direction for his more recent interests in working at the intersections of philosophy, religion, and literature. In 2007, he presented a paper on George Herbert and “saturated experience” (J. L. Marion) at the 2007 Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society meeting in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. More recently, in 2008, he presented a paper on religious experience in the poetry of George Herbert and Emily Dickinson at the International George Herbert conference held at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro: "George Herbert's Travels: International Print and Cultural Legacies." In April 2010, he presented at the RSA in Venice, Italy, where he read a paper on Shakespeare's Falstaff. Last year, in March 2011, he presented a paper at the RSA meeting in Montreal, Canada on the Welsh dimension of Shakespeare's Second Henriad. This fall, he will give a paper on George Herbert and Dylan Thomas (“Voice and Anguish in George Herbert and Dylan Thomas”) at the “Locating George Herbert: Family, Place, and Traditions” conference at the University of Wales (October 2011). And in 2012, at the RSA in Washington, DC, Dr. Strait will present a paper as part of a panel presentation on the work of the American philosopher Stanley Cavell on Shakespeare studies.
He has also presented papers and published articles on Emily Dickinson, G. K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, and Joseph Mitchell. He also serves as an editorial board member of The Chesterton Review, a quarterly journal of religion, literature, and culture, published by Seton Hall University. He holds a Ph.D. in English (1998) from Indiana University of Pa., where he wrote a dissertation on poetry and religious language in George Herbert and Emily Dickinson. He also serves as an editorial board member of The Chesterton Review, a quarterly journal of religion, literature, and culture, published by Seton Hall University.
Dr. Strait has been married for 23 years. He and his wife have two children and live in Wilmore, Kentucky.
