Martin Elsky

Martin Elsky is coordinator of the Renaissance Studies program at the CUNY Graduate School. He teaches 16-17 century English poetry and prose at the CUNY Graduate School and at Brooklyn College.

He is the author of Authorizing Words: Speech, Writing, and Print in the English Renaissance (Cornell), and has written essays in scholarly journals on Donne, Herbert, Jonson, Bacon, and Milton. He is currently concluding a monograph on Ben Jonson's country house poems in relation to family and local history during the dynastic consolidation of the English countryside. He is also working on Erich Auerbach and pre-World War I concepts of Europe as a subject of literary and cultural study.