About

David Glimp specializes in Renaissance English literature. Most of his work has explored how English authors of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries engaged with aspects of Renaissance moral and political philosophy. He has authored the book 'Increase and Multiply: Governing Cultural Reproduction in Early Modern England' and co-edited 'Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe.' His research interests also include contemporary literary and social theory. Currently, he is working on two projects: one on discourses of security and the genres of emergency in the Renaissance, and another on how the theological concept of 'the creature' impacts definitions of personhood in early modern moral philosophy and literature.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Psychoanalysis
• Computer Science
• Philosophy
• Mathematics education
• Art history
• Archaeology
• History
• Optics
• Physics
• Data science
• Pedagogy
• Art
• Epistemology

Selected publications

• Security, Fiscal Policy, and Sovereignty in Renaissance English Literature

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2025-09-04

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  Taxation was a central challenge for England's rulers during the Renaissance, and consequently became a major theme for some of the period's greatest writers. Through close readings of works by Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, George Herbert, and John Milton, David Glimp reveals how these writers and others grappled with the period's expanding systems of taxation and changing understandings of collective security. Such debates involved questions of political obligation, what it meant to be safe, and the nature of political community itself. Challenging dominant understandings of Renaissance sovereignty, Glimp explores in greater detail than ever before how early modern authors thought about and engaged the fiscal realities of government. From Utopia to Paradise Lost, his groundbreaking analysis illuminates how Renaissance literature addressed concerns about fiscal policy, state power, and collective wellbeing and will appeal to scholars of Renaissance literature, political theory, and economic history alike.

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• INTEGRATING THE HUMANITIES INTO DATA SCIENCE EDUCATION

  Statistics Education Research Journal · 2022 · 11 citations

  • Computer Science
  • Mathematics education
  • Computer Science

  Despite growing calls to develop data science students’ ethical awareness and expand human-centered approaches to data science education, introductory courses in the field remain largely technical. A new interdisciplinary data science program aims to merge STEM and humanities perspectives starting at the very beginning of the data science curriculum. Existing literature suggests that humanities integration can make STEM courses more appealing to a wider range of students, including women and students of color, and enhance student learning of essential concepts and foundational reasoning skills, such as those collectively known as data acumen. Cultivating students’ data acumen requires a more inclusive vision of how the knowledge and insights generated through computational methods and statistical analysis relates to other ways of knowing.

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• Figuring Belief: George Herbert’s Devotional Creatures

  Fordham University Press eBooks · 2022

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  • Art
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Art history
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• 2. Extreme Cary

  Fordham University Press eBooks · 2020-10-29

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• <i>Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster</i>. By <scp>Gerard Passannante</scp>

  Shakespeare Quarterly · 2020

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  • Psychology
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Philosophy
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• Sovereignty after Taxes in Shakespeare's History Plays

  Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 · 2018-01-01

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  Fiscal policy in Shakespeare's history plays represents a key administrative reality that both conditions and limits the exercise of sovereign authority. Shakespeare is acutely aware of how sovereign efforts to appropriate subjects' wealth magnify political volatility. The plays of Shakespeare's first and second tetralogies, in addition to King John, demonstrate what we might call the sovereign predicament: sovereignty takes money and the taking of money creates affectively intense opposition to rule. The royal protagonists in these plays confront the realities of financial management as both the condition of and limit on their power. Even Henry V, the ruler who most successfully and spectacularly negotiates the governmental realities of fiscal policy, has to confront the limits and nonreproducibility of his achievement.

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• Extreme Cary

  Fordham University Press eBooks · 2018-05-24

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• More’s Utopia

  2017-09-27

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  The central assumption informing the following account of Sir Thomas More's Utopia is this: No equipment, no imaginary worlds. This statement appropriates Bruno Latour's lapidary formula, offered in Reassembling the Social: &quot;No equipment, no rationality&quot;. This chapter explores how More's act of literary making depends upon humanist equipment. In this case, imagined fictional worlds are made possible by the available resources for governing the world. Utopia depicts humanism in action, drawing on, addressing, analyzing, and playing with the equipment the professional class of humanist councilors, commissioners, office holders, justices, secretaries, chancellors, and other governmental officials bring to their projects of governmental world-making. The chapter shows how the governmental aspects of world-making provide equipment for—as well as an occasion for—imaginary world-making. The very persistence and vitality of utopia as a genre should be evidence enough of the pleasures embedded in paraconciliar reflection and exchange, pleasures that survive and frequently intensify across media and temporal and spatial settings.

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• More’s Utopia

  2017-09-27

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• Extreme Cary

  Fordham University Press eBooks · 2016-04-01 · 1 citations

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  Abstract “Extreme Cary” takes up Jonathan Goldberg’s provocative suggestion at the end of Desiring Women Writing that Elizabeth Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam is informed by a Marlovian “dramatic sensibility.” The essay develops this insight by exploring how Cary’s play draws on Christopher Marlowe’s extremophilic strategies for depicting the world falling apart. For Marlowe and Cary alike, such strategies afford means of opening up, even if momentarily, political and social possibilities otherwise foreclosed. Through the rhetorical figure of paradox, Cary explores the limits of—and possibilities for agency within—a geopolitical imaginary over-organized around the distinction between friend and enemy.

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Frequent coauthors

• Jane Garrity

  University of Colorado System

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• NATHAN D. PIEPLOW

  University of Colorado System

  1 shared

• Brett A. Melbourne

  University of Colorado Boulder

  1 shared

• Michelle R. Warren

  1 shared

• Russ Castronovo

  1 shared

• Eric A. Vance

  University of Colorado Boulder

  1 shared