John N. Wall, 1980–1981 | National Humanities Center

John N. Wall (NHC Fellow, 1980–81; 2013–14)

Project Title, 1980–81

The Poetics of Persuasion in the English Renaissance

North Carolina State University

Project Title, 2013–14

Hearing Donne: The Experience of Preaching in Early Modern London

North Carolina State University

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Fellowship Work Summary, 2013–14

John N. Wall wrote three chapters of his book Hearing Donne: The Experience of Preaching in Early Modern London. He also worked on “Virtual Paul’s Cross: The Experience of Public Preaching after the Reformation” for Paul’s Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520–1640; “Recovering Lost Acoustic Spaces: St. Paul’s Cathedral and Paul’s Churchyard in 1622” for the online journal Digital Studies / Le champ numérique; and “Transforming the Object of Our Study: The Early Modern Sermon and the Virtual Paul’s Cross Project” for the online Journal of Digital Humanities.