Shaun Ross is a scholar of early modern non-dramatic literature and the cultural history of religion. He is completing a PhD degree in English literature at McGill, and also holds a MA in Early Modern and Medieval Studies from the English Dept. at the University of Victoria. His dissertation is titled “Sacramental Signification: Eucharistic Poetics in Early Modern England”, and will trace the way the eucharist informs early modern poetic theories of signification. He hopes to be able to connect his own study of both conversion in the eucharist (bread into body, absence into presence) and of the eucharist (its changing doctrinal, social, and cultural features in early modernity) to the EMC’s investigation of this “age of conversion.”
