Douglas Jones

Area of study: 16th century devotion in England Advisor: Raymond Mentzer Education: M.A., University of Chicago Divinity School, 2005 B.A., Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, 2003 My research focuses on the beliefs and practices of religious groups in Elizabethan and Jacobean England who were deemed heretical or schismatic by “orthodox” outsiders. In particular, I study the notorious dissemblers known as the Family of Love and the process by which their public personae shifted from “genuine subversive threat” to lascivious laughingstock – the object of Middleton's (and other's) bawdy humor. I came to the University of Iowa in 2006 from Chicago by way of Pittsburgh where I stopped for some time to bask in the glory of Super Bowl XL. I enjoy reading science fiction, rowing, and brewing (as of yet!) not very good beer.