Professor and Graduate Coordinator
Co-editor, The Ben Jonson Journal

Education:

• BA - U of Kansas (1967)
• MA - Boston College (1969)
• PhD - U of Kansas (1974)

Curriculum vitae (.pdf)

Dr. Harp is Director of Graduate Studies in the English department. He has published seven books (including books published by Cambridge and Norton), 31 articles, and has presented 28 conference papers. He has taught and lectured extensively internationally, having held, for example, a Fulbright appointment at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and a Dissertation Fellowship at the National University of Ireland-Galway. He is a founding co-editor (with Stanley Stewart at UC-Riverside) of a journal in Renaissance studies, the Ben Jonson Journal, which is housed at UNLV. His teaching and research interests include Renaissance and Irish literature, as well as interdisciplinary studies centered around the Great Works. He is especially interested in mentoring graduate students' research and has helped guide the publication of the work of more than fifteen students and the conference presentations of many others.