Editorial Team

Peter McCullough, BA (UCLA), PhD (Princeton), is Sohmer-Hall Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford, and Professor in English Renaissance Literature in the Oxford Faculty of English.  He is editor of OESJD Volume 1: Sermons Preached at the Courts of James VI & I, 1615–19 (OUP, 2015), and co-editor, with Erica Longfellow, of OESJD Volume 7: Sermons Preached at Marriages, Christenings, and Churchings (OUP, 2025). He is also editor of Lancelot Andrewes: Selected Sermons & Lectures (OUP, 2005), and author of Sermons at Court: Politics and Religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean Preaching (CUP, 1998), and many lives of early modern clergy for the ODNB. He is also co-editor (with Emma Rhatigan and Hugh Adlington) of The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon (OUP, 2011).  He is currently completing a biography of Lancelot Andrewes (OUP).

Deputy General Editor

David Colclough, MA (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon), is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London. He is the editor of OESJD Volume 3: Sermons Preached at the Court of Charles I (OUP, 2013), and Volume 14: Sermons Preached at St Paul’s Cathedral, 1628-30 (forthcoming). He is the author of the ODNB life of John Donne, and the editor of John Donne’s Professional Lives (D.S. Brewer, 2003). He has recently published The Oxford Francis Bacon, Volume 19: New Atlantis (OUP, 2025), and is a member of the Oxford Francis Bacon Editorial Board.

AHRC Postdoctoral Research Associate (until September 2014)

Sebastiaan Verweij, MA (Amsterdam), PhD (Glasgow), is Associate Professor in Scottish and English Premodern Literature at the University of Bristol. He carried out the collation of all print witnesses for OESJD, and devised its protocols for manuscript transcriptions, as well as organising conferences and events. With Peter McCullough he will co-author the Textual Companion to the series. He is the author of The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland: Manuscript Production and Transmission, 1560-1625 (OUP, 2016), and 'Sermon Notes from John Donne in the Manuscripts of Francis Russell, Fourth Earl of Bedford', in English Literary Renaissance (46.2, 2016).

AHRC Postdoctoral Research Associate (September 2014-April 2015)

Kirsty Rolfe, MA, PhD (London) is University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Her current research focuses on news, political writing, and gender, and she is an Associate Editor with The Thomas Nashe Project, producing a new 6-volume edition of Nashe's works for OUP (Gen. Ed. Jennifer Richards).

Contributing Editors

Hugh Adlington, MA (Oxon), PhD (London), is Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. His work on Donne includes articles and chapters on formal and political aspects of Donne’s sermons, essays on Donne’s style and punctuation (in The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Religion, 2017, and The Cambridge History of Punctuation in English Literature, forthcoming), and on Donne's library (in The Book Collector and Times Literary Supplement). He is a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of Donne Studies, eds. D. Flynn, M. Thomas Hester, and J. Shami (OUP, 2011), and co-editor (with Peter McCullough and Emma Rhatigan) of The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon (OUP, 2011). He is also co-editor (with Tom Lockwood and Gillian Wright) of The Chaplain in Early Modern England: Literature, Patronage and Religion (Manchester UP, 2013).   

Katrin Ettenhuber, MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab), is a Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and College Lecturer at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She is the editor of OESJD Volume 5: Sermons Preached at Lincoln's Inn, 1620–1623 (OUP, 2016), author of The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479–1630 (OUP, 2023) and Donne’s Augustine: Renaissance Cultures of Interpretation (OUP, 2007), and co-editor (with Gavin Alexander and Sylvia Adamson) of Renaissance Figures of Speech (CUP, 2007). She is currently editing Milton's Samson Agonistes for the Longman Annotated Poets series.

Lori Anne Ferrell, BLS, MA, MPhil, PhD (Yale), FRHistS, is Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities and Director of the Early Modern Studies Program at Claremont Graduate University. She is the author of The Bible and the People (Yale UP, 2008) and Government by Polemic: James I and the King's Preachers (Stanford UP, 1998), and co-editor (with David Cressy) of Society and Religion in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2nd ed., 2006) and (with Peter McCullough) of The English Sermon Revised (Manchester UP, 1999).

Arnold Hunt, BA, PhD (Cantab) is Lecturer in Early Modern Palaeography in the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham University, and formerly Curator of Manuscripts at the British Library.  He is the author of Protestant Bodies: Gesture in the English Reformation (CUP, 2025), and The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and their Audiences 1590-1640 (CUP, 2010).

Erica Longfellow, BA (Duke), MSt, DPhil (Oxon), is Dean of Divinity of New College, Oxford. She co-edited, with Peter McCullough, OESJD Volume 7: Sermons Preached at Marriages, Christenings, and Churchings (OUP, 2025), and is author of Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England (CUP, 2004) as well as articles on religious writing, women’s writing, and privacy. She is currently working on interiority in early modern England.

Mary Ann Lund, MA, MPhil, DPhil (Oxon) is Professor of Renaissance English Literature at the University of Leicester. She is the editor of OESJD Volume 12: Sermons Preached at St Paul's Cathedral, 1626 (OUP, 2017), and Volume 13: Sermons Preached at St Paul's Cathedral, 1626–1628 (OUP, 2026), and author of Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England: Reading 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' (CUP, 2010) and A User's Guide to Melancholy (CUP, 2021). She has published articles on subjects including Donne, Robert Burton, John Bunyan, Sir Thomas Browne, the history of medicine, Richard III, and sermon paratexts.

Mary Morrissey, MLitt (Dub.), PhD (Cantab.), is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Department of English Literature, University of Reading. She is the author of Politics and the Paul’s Cross Sermons, 1588-1642 (OUP, 2011). She has also published articles on early modern preaching and religious culture (particularly with reference to Paul’s Cross), early modern women’s devotional writing, and the seminal 'Was John Donne a Catholic?: Conversion, Conformity, and Early Modern English Confessional Identities', Review of English Studies (74.313, 2023).

Emma Rhatigan, MA, DPhil (Oxon), is Senior Lecturer in English in the School of English at the University of Sheffield. Her research and publications focus on early modern texts in performance (both drama and preaching) and their audiences. She is co-editor (with Peter McCullough and Hugh Adlington) of The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon (OUP, 2011) and (with Dr Jackie Watson) Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court (Palgrave, 2024).

Philip West, MPhil, PhD (Cantab), is Fellow & Tutor in English at Somerville College, Oxford, and ‘Times’ Lecturer in the Oxford Faculty of English. He is the author of Henry Vaughan’s Silex Scintillans: Scripture Uses (OUP, 2001) as well as articles on early modern devotional poetry and religion. He is currently editing The Poems of James Shirley, which will be one of the first volumes of the Complete Works of James Shirley (OUP).