Professor of English
A.B., Harvard; Ph.D., Yale

jrmacdon@sewanee.edu

A faculty member since 2013, Ross teaches Milton, Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, and English Drama to 1642, as well as Texts and Contexts of the Early Modern World in the interdisciplinary Humanities program. His essays have appeared in Studies in Philology, Spenser Studies, Ben Jonson Journal, SEL, and in several edited collections. In May 2022, he was a Lindsay Young Visiting Regional Faculty Fellow at the Marco Institute for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. As the college's pre-professional teaching adviser, he especially welcomes conversations with students interested in pursuing careers as educators. For more information: https://new.sewanee.edu/programs-of-study/teaching/