The Honors College

Honors College Faculty

Email: jhferguson@uh.edu
Phone: 713.743.9017
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Jamie H. Ferguson is Associate Professor of Honors and English at the University of Houston, where he teaches courses in early modern literature, Shakespeare, the history and theory of translation, biblical literature, and the Great Books of antiquity and modernity. In 2022, he published Reformation Hermeneutics and Literary Language in Early Modern England: Faith in the Language, on the convergence of biblical hermeneutics and English literature from Tyndale to Donne. He is working on a new book, “Post-Reformation Poetics,” which will trace the impact of shifting notions of biblical language on poetics in several early modern languages. He has recently published an article on Shakespeare’s Bible in the Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion. He is also working on an annotated translation of Joachim du Bellay’s Deffence et illustration de la langue françoyse (1549) for the series Sources in Early Poetics, an article on “The Pléiade and Early Modern English Language Reform” for the Brill Companion to the Pléiade, and an annotated text of the Book of Isaiah for the OUP King James Study Bible. In 2022, he founded the Early Modern Literature and Religion (EMLR) initiative, under whose auspices he has organized 47 sessions at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference over the last four years and, in May 2026, six panels at the Reformation Research Consortium conference in  Wrocław, Poland, with plans for several special journal issues and for extension of the initiative to the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting in 2027.