Jeffrey Gore
My research focuses on early modern education, in particular, its focus on moral and political education through language arts instruction. As a a literary scholar, I'm interested in why Milton believed that studying Latin would "repair the ruins of our first parents" and why so many characters in Shakespeare seem to hate education, when the author's work itself plays such a central (and often dreaded) role in our own learning experiences. Drawing from the work of Aristotle, Pierre Bourdieu, and Ernst Bloch, I am most interested in ways that literacy is perceived as a form of social capital, from sixteenth-century grammar schools with an aristocratic bent to seventeenth-century utopian experiments.
In addition to courses on medieval and Renaissance literature, I also teach classes on writing, Shakespeare and global film, and Utopian/dystopian literature at UIC in both the Department of English and the Honors College. I have been the featured scholar for the UIC School of Theatre and Music’s post-performance discussions of Shakespeare’s plays, and I recently contributed to revisions of the UIC First Year Writing curriculum.
Phone: (312) 355-0867
Address: Jeffrey Gore, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Department of English (MC 162)
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 S. Morgan St., 1801 UH
Chicago, IL 60607-7120
jgore1@uic.edu
http://go.uic.edu/GoreEnglishFaculty
In addition to courses on medieval and Renaissance literature, I also teach classes on writing, Shakespeare and global film, and Utopian/dystopian literature at UIC in both the Department of English and the Honors College. I have been the featured scholar for the UIC School of Theatre and Music’s post-performance discussions of Shakespeare’s plays, and I recently contributed to revisions of the UIC First Year Writing curriculum.
Phone: (312) 355-0867
Address: Jeffrey Gore, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Department of English (MC 162)
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 S. Morgan St., 1801 UH
Chicago, IL 60607-7120
jgore1@uic.edu
http://go.uic.edu/GoreEnglishFaculty
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but have given much less attention to the relationship between Milton’s experience as an educator and the development of his imagination, theology, and political commitments. This article argues that Milton’s monistic understanding of body and spirit, which played a prominent role two decades later in Paradise Lost and Christian Doctrine, emerged when he was a London schoolmaster in the 1640s. Drawing from writings on the social ontology of habit, the article demonstrates that the materialist orientation
of these later masterpieces plays a prominent role in Milton’s earlier writings on social institutions, Of Education, The Reason of Church-Government, and Areopagitica. The social ontology of habit, as it appears in the works of both ancient and modern philosophers, challenges how we understand Milton’s conception of liberty and reveals his early monistic vision of collective life in the postmonarchical English republic.
, Ernest Sirluck devotes his section on Of Education
Sections:
• Personal Statement
• Author Biography and Key Terms
• Application to Education
• Further Readings
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Facebook Page -- Jeffrey Gore Teaching Page (literature and writing)
but have given much less attention to the relationship between Milton’s experience as an educator and the development of his imagination, theology, and political commitments. This article argues that Milton’s monistic understanding of body and spirit, which played a prominent role two decades later in Paradise Lost and Christian Doctrine, emerged when he was a London schoolmaster in the 1640s. Drawing from writings on the social ontology of habit, the article demonstrates that the materialist orientation
of these later masterpieces plays a prominent role in Milton’s earlier writings on social institutions, Of Education, The Reason of Church-Government, and Areopagitica. The social ontology of habit, as it appears in the works of both ancient and modern philosophers, challenges how we understand Milton’s conception of liberty and reveals his early monistic vision of collective life in the postmonarchical English republic.
, Ernest Sirluck devotes his section on Of Education
Sections:
• Personal Statement
• Author Biography and Key Terms
• Application to Education
• Further Readings
Facebook Page -- Jeffrey Gore Teaching Page (literature and writing)
LAS 111 is a one-hour, once-a-week first-year seminar that helps students to understand the relationship between global issues and the opportunities available to them both inside and outside the classroom at UIC. Learning Units this semester include
• Living with Walls: Immigration & Community
• Stuffed and Starved: Food Sovereignty in a Global Context
• Policing Borders: Security & Torture, Drones & Phones
• Traversing Borders: Diaspora Then and Now
with a visit by Featured Scholar Kevin Kenny, author of Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction
• Beyond Borders: International Water Crises and Solutions
featuring our annual Green Matters lecture with UIC Professor Max Berkelhammer