David Wilson-Okamura
About
David Wilson-Okamura is the recipient of ECU’s highest teaching honor, the Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching. His first book, Virgil in the Renaissance, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010 and received the Alexander McKay prize for the best Virgil book of 2010 and 2011. His second book, Spenser’s International Style, was published in 2013, also from Cambridge University Press, and received the International Spenser Society’s Isabel McCaffrey Medal for the best Spenser book of 2013 and 2014.
Education
- B.A. Stanford University
- M.A. University of Chicago
- Ph.D. University of Chicago
Research Interests
- Spenser
- Shakespeare
- Classics
Courses Taught
- ENGL 6121: Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature
- ENGL 4090: Shakespeare’s Tragedies
- ENGL 4080: Shakespeare’s Comedies
- ENGL 4070: Shakespeare’s Histories
- ENGL 4050: English Renaissance
- MRST 4000: Queen Elizabeth and The Faerie Queene
- GRBK 4000: Virgil
- ENGL 3640: Literature and Religion
- ENGL 3630: Bible as Literature
- ENGL 3600: Classics: Homer to Dante
- ENGL 3410: Introduction to Poetry
- ENGL 2201: Writing about the Disciplines
- ENLG 2000: Interpreting Literature
- GRBK 2000: The Meaning of Life
- ENGL 1100: Foundations of College Writing
- ENGL 1000: Appreciating Literature