• Duane Coltharp joined the Department of English at Trinity University in 1993. After serving for eighteen years in an administrative role in the Office of Academic Affairs, he returned to his full-time faculty position in 2024. His research interests focus on British literature and culture in the long eighteenth century, with a current emphasis on the many charitable, benevolent, or philanthropic projects that emerged during the period.

    • Ph.D., University of Michigan
    • B.A., Missouri State University

    • “National Identity in the British Volunteer Sermons, 1794-1802.” Journal of Religious History 47, no. 2 (2023), pp. 175-95. 
    • “Richard Gough, Peter Peckard, and the Problem of Little Gidding.” Journal of Anglican Studies 18, no. 1 (2020), pp. 1-24. 
    • “Raising Wonder: The Use of the Passions in Dryden’s A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day.” Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 28, no. 2 (2004), pp. 1-18. 

    • Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature (various topics)
    • Restoration Drama
    • Milton
    • The Beginnings of English Literature
    • First-Year Experience (Science Fiction)