Marlin E. Blaine
Professor
Biography
Marlin Blaine is a native of Kentucky, where he attended Transylvania University. After receiving his Ph.D. from UCLA, he taught for four years at the University of North Texas. He has been at Cal State Fullerton since 2000.
Degrees
1995, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
1991, M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
1987, B.A., Transylvania University, Kentucky
Research Areas
Early modern English literature; Neo-Latin literature; Shakespeare; history of Stratford-upon-Avon; Milton; history of rhetoric; classical reception in the Renaissance; John Trapp.
Courses Regularly Taught
Early Modern English and European literature; Milton; history of rhetoric; world literature; classical mythology; the Bible as literature; comedy; tragedy.
Publications
Book Culture in Shakespeare’s Stratford: The Quiney Connections, co-authored with Lena Cowen Orlin, Alan H. Nelson, and Robert Bearman. Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury, 2026. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/book-culture-in-shakespeares-stratford-9781350558533/
“John Trapp and the Shakespeare Family Epitaphs.” Forthcoming in Shakespeare. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2025.2599352
“Susanna Hall, Richard Grace, and Queen Henrietta Maria: The Flowering of a Shakespeare Myth.” Forthcoming in Shakespeare Quarterly, Spring 2026.
“The New Waller Poem and ‘To a Fair Lady, Playing with a Snake.’” Notes and Queries 72, no. 3 (2025): 242–45. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjaf069
“Four Monarchies, a Dog, a Cat, and Peg, Meg, or Margaret: ‘Upward Allusions’ in Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Burse.” Ben Jonson Journal 31, no. 2 (2024): 125–39. https://doi.org/10.3366/bjj.2024.0372
“Evidence of Dictation in the Manuscript of Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Burse.” Notes and Queries 71, no. 1 (2024): 73–76. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjae007
“An Edition of Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Burse and a New Letter by Collier on Massinger in the Athenaeum (1857).” Early Theatre 26, no. 2 (2023): 101–18.
“Alphanumeric Puzzles on the Life of Sor Juana: The Verse Chronograms in the Cabrera Portrait (1750).” Hispania 106, no. 4 (2023), 557–62.
“Iacobus Verulitius, Jacques Vervliet, and the Latin Verses on Mancelli’s Engraving of the Plaza Mayor de Madrid (ca. 1623).” eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies 54 (2023): 182–92.
“Eve’s Childless Future and Genesis 3:19 in Paradise Lost.” Notes and Queries 70, no. 1 (2023): 34–35. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjad009
“‘Juno Thunders with the Tongue’: A Misogynistic Latin Epigram Attributed to Dryden and Its Afterlives.” Philological Quarterly 101, no. 1–2 (2022): 71–93.
“The Frontispiece Epigraphs of Thomas Randolph’s Poems (1640): Martial, Horace, and Sidronius Hosschius.” Notes and Queries 69, no. 2 (2022): 114–17. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjac037
“George Jeffreys’s Translation of a Latin Epigram on Casimire and Hosschius’s Elegy on Sarbiewski.” Humanistica Lovaniensia 70, no. 1 (2021): 141–48.
“Not Just Herbert’s ‘Morals’: Or, Thomas Randolph, Francis Quarles, and Richard Crashaw in Dissenter Primers.” Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation
and Nonconformist Culture 24 (2020): 85–92.
“Lust, Spirit, and the Vice List in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129 and Galatians 5.” Ben Jonson Journal 27, no. 2 (2020): 234–46. https://doi.org/10.3366/bjj.2020.028
“Sallustian Views of Nature and Ethics in Paradise Lost, Book 8.” Notes and Queries 67, no. 3 (2020): 382–83. https://doi:10.1093/notesj/gjaa095
“‘Worke it into one relish, and savour’: Jonson’s Discoveries.” Oxford Handbook of
Ben Jonson, ed. Eugene Giddens. (Oxford: Oxford University Press), June 2019. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199544561.001.0001
“Iacopone da Todi, Lauda 48 (O Signor, per cortesia), Translation and Commentary.” Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature 34, no. 1 (2019): 28–38.
“Marvell’s ‘Horatian Ode’: Cromwell, the Sword, and the Body Politic.” Clio: A Journal
of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 41, no. 1 (2012): 53–73.
“Srijut So-and-so’s Arabian Nights: Narrative and Psychological Rupture in Tagore’s ‘The Hungry Stones.’” South Asian Review 32, no. 2 (2011): 15–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2011.11932828
“Envy, Eunoia, and Ethos in Jonson's Poems on Shakespeare and Drayton.” Studies
in Philology 106, no. 4 (2009): 441–455. https://doi.org/10.1353/sip.0.0039
“The Representative Body, the Severed Head, and the Rump: Figurations of the English State, 1640–1662.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries into the Early
Modern Era 16 (2009): 151–167.
“Milton and the Monument Topos: ‘On Shakespeare,’ Ad Joannem Roüsium, and Poems (1645).” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 99, no. 2 (2000): 215–34.
“Gustavus Adolphus, ‘True Englishmen,’ and the Politics of Caroline Poetry.” Modern
Language Quarterly 59, no. 3 (1998): 279–311.
https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-59-3-279
Office Hours
Spring 2026
TWTh 2:00pm - 3:00pm
