Brandon Schneeberger joined the Montreat College faculty in 2022 as an assistant professor of English. He studied English literature at Emporia State University, Kansas State University, and The University of Nevada, Las Vegas and has previously taught writing and literature courses at Kansas State, UNLV, and Oklahoma State University. He has published several essays on English literature, with an emphasis in early modern British writers. He is the author of the Ben Jonson bibliography for Oxford Bibliographies in British and Irish Literature (Oxford UP, 2018) and co-author of Exploring Catholic Faith in Shakespeare’s Plays: Towards a Philosophy of Education (Routledge, 2025). He serves as Associate Editor for The Ben Jonson Journal (Edinburgh UP).
Dr. Brandon Schneeberger
Studies in History, Language, and Literature
Faculty of Christianity, Culture, and Human Expression
Degrees
B.S., Emporia State University
M.A., Kansas State University
Ph.D., University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Bibliography
Monograph
Exploring Catholic Faith in Shakespeare’s Plays: Towards a Philosophy of Education. Routledge, 2025. [Co-authored with David Torevell and Luke Taylor, S.J.]
Selected Essays
“Shakespeare’s Garden of Peace in Henry V.” In Critical Insights: Henry V. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Amenia, NY: Salem Press, 2026.
“‘What marriage is’: De Praesenti Vows in Shakespeare’s As You Like It.” In Critical Insights: As You Like It. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Amenia, NY: Salem Press, 2025.
“The Woods as Sacrament in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A View of the Woods.’” In Critical Insights: Into the Woods. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Amenia, NY: Salem Press, 2024.
“Virtus and Intercessory Prayer in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure.” In Critical Insights: Power and Corruption. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Amenia, NY: Salem Press, 2023. 153-72.
“‘No, Sir; we had talk enough, but no conversation’: Idle Talk in Sense and Sensibility.” In Critical Insights: Sense and Sensibility. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Amenia, NY: Salem Press, 2023. 128-45.
“The Eighth Day: Liturgical Elements in G. K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday.” Religion and Literature 54.3 (2023). (Forthcoming)
“The Play’s the Thing: Masking in Hamlet and Mansfield Park.” In Critical Insights: Truth and Lies. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Amenia, NY: Salem Press, 2022. 49-66.
“Fine Constantia Wine: Sacrificial Love and Eucatastrophe in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.” In Critical Insights: Love. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Amenia, NY: Salem Press, 2022. 44-61.
“The Conversation of Friendship in Julius Caesar.” In Critical Insights: Julius Caesar. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Amenia, NY: Salem Press, 2021. 83-100.
“Coventry Patmore’s Divine Comedy: The Unknown Eros.” In New Insights into Literature and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Ed. Paul Rowan and David Torevell. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. 21-39.
“Dulce Domum: Conversation about Home and Homeland in The Wind in the Willows.” In Critical Insights: Patriotism. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Amenia, NY: Salem Press, 2021. 160-78.
“Beauty in Shakespeare’s Othello.” In Critical Insights: Othello. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Amenia, NY: Salem Press, 2021. 158-74.
“Learning in Wartime: Samuel Johnson and Spiritual Transcendence in The Vanity of Human Wishes.” In Critical Insights: Literature in Times of Crises. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Amenia, NY: Salem Press, 2021. 62-79.
“‘We are perpetually moralists’: Samuel Johnson and Renaissance Epistemology.” Quidditas 40 (2019): 220–49.