Dale B.J. Randall Professor Emeritus
Office Location: 0019 Trent Hall
Office Phone: +1 919 684 6838,
Email Address: dbjandpr@acpub.duke.edu
- Education and Interests:
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
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Prof. Randall has worked in 16th, 17th, and 20th century English Culture and 19th century U.S. Culture.
A native Ohioan, he accepted an instructorship at Duke in 1957 and proceeded through the ranks, teaching and publishing, especially in 17th-century English literature, until his retirement in 1999. He has served variously as chair of the Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Asst. and Assoc. Dean of the Duke University Graduate School, chair of The Duke Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Executive Committee of the Folger Institute of Renaissance and 18th Century Studies, Interim Director of Duke Drama, and chair of the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. His academic honors include a Duke Endowment Fellowship, an American Philosophical Society Award, an NEH Grant for publication, a Duke University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Grant, two Senior Fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. An annual Dale B. J. Randall Award for the Outstanding Undergraduate Essay in Dramatic Literature was established at Duke in 1999 and first awarded in 2000.
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Joseph Conrad and Warrington Dawson: The Record of a Friendship. Durham: Duke UP, 242 pp, 1968.
- Gentle Flame: The Life and Verse of Dudley, Fourth Lord North (1602-1677). Durham: Duke UP, 254 pp, 1983.
- Theatres of Greatness: A Revisionary View of Ford's "Perkin Warbeck". English Literary Studies.37 University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., 80 pp, 1986.
- Winter Fruit: English Drama 1642-1660. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, xiv, 454 pp, 1995.
- Soliloquy of a Farmer's Wife: The Diary of Anne Elliott Perrin (17 December 1917-31 December 1918). Athens: Ohio UP, 113 illust. xxxi, 384 pp, 1999.
