Shaun Russell is an Assistant Professor of Teaching, working in the fields of early modern literature, book history, and editorial theory. His work also focuses on the nature of early modern criticism, and frequently revisits long-lingering critical assumptions made about poetic works and editions of the period, with a special focus on Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Recent conference presentations have engaged with Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton, and Katherine Philips, while representative publications include “Shakespeare’s Sonnet 145 and the Challenges of Legacy Criticism” in Critical Survey 36.2, “‘Editorial Conjecture’ and the Critical Afterlife of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146” in Studies in Philology 122.4, and “Superliminare and the Textual Authority of the Williams Manuscript of George Herbert’s Poems” in George Herbert Journal 43. His scholarship has also been solicited by Gale/Cengage for contributions to their Poetry Criticism series. 

Service and teaching are vital to Shaun’s identity as a professor, and he routinely serves on committees at the department, college, and university level. His current committee responsibilities include serving on the university senate’s Council on Student Affairs (2025-28), the college’s Faculty Advisory Council (2025-28), and the English department’s Executive Committee (2025-27).

To date, Shaun has taught over fifty courses at OSU, including some of the following:

English 1110 (Writing and Information Literacy)
English 2201 (British Literature to 1800)
English 2260 (Introduction to Poetry)
English 2261 (Introduction to Fiction)
English 2262 (Introduction to Drama)
English 2367.01 (Second-year Writing)
English 2367.02 (Literature in the U.S. Experience)
English 3264 (Monsters Without and Within)
English 3395 (Literature and Leadership)
ARTSSCI 1137 (Music and Social Justice)