Rate My Professor Anne Myers

Anne Myers is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia, specializing in Literature, particularly the literature of Renaissance England with an emphasis on the seventeenth century. She serves as Director of Graduate Studies for Advising and Admissions. Myers holds a B.A. from Pomona College (1994) and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (2005). Her research focuses on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British literature, history, religion, and architecture, post-Reformation ecclesiology and local history, and the rise of antiquarianism and amateur history in the post-Reformation period. She teaches courses on Shakespeare, Milton, Renaissance drama, and seventeenth-century poetry and religious literature.

Myers authored the book Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), which examines literary and historical treatments of England's built environment in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts by William Camden, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Anne Clifford, and John Evelyn. Her current book project explores the idea of the "monument" in early modern England, referring to both built physical monuments and historical manuscripts or printed texts, featuring chapters on John Foxe, Ralph Josselin, Randle Holme, John Leyland, and Anne Clifford. This work receives support from the College of Arts and Science Mid-Career Writing Group and the Provost's Mid-Career Research Fellows Program. Notable publications include "Navel-Gazing and the Performance of Gratitude: Accounting for Character in Ralph Josselin's Diary" in JEMCS (2021); "The Architecture of Shakespearean Comedy: Domesticity, Performance and the Empty Room" in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy (Oxford University Press, 2018); "Restoring 'The Church-porch': George Herbert's Architectural Style" in ELR (2010), winner of the best article award for 2010; "Construction Sites: The Architecture of Anne Clifford's Diaries" in ELH (2006), honorable mention for Best Article from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women; and others. She received awards for her articles and participates as a Mid-Career Research Development Fellow (2022-24).