Andrew Fleck

One facet of my academic identity I want to highlight here is my inter- and transdisciplinary expertise in early modern studies. I have published books and articles on a variety of literary and cultural topics, from a late medieval travel narrative (Mandeville’s Travels) to Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. I am most known for my studies of early modern England and the Low Countries, having published my monograph, English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch, with Palgrave in 2024. I am also known for my work on Thomas Nashe. My current interdisciplinary project, Schemers and Skeptics: The Search for Certainty in the Age of Bacon, brings together literature and the history of science to better understand the response to changing epistemologies in early modern Europe. A more complete presentation of my research and scholarship will be available on a set of pages beginning here.

With three decades of experience in college classrooms, I have broad and deep teaching interests. I am presently teaching a first-year honors humanities seminar and in the spring I will teach one of my specialties, a course on John Milton. I have taught graduate courses in early modern topics and research methods, first-year writing courses, Shakespeare for non-majors, and just about everything in between. I love to teach collaboratively and with colleagues and have team taught trans- and interdisciplinary courses about “the human” with colleagues in Biology and in global humanities with colleagues from History, Communication, and Philosophy. Some of this teaching has led to publications about my classrooms and some has led my own students to academic publications. More information about my pedagogy can be found here.

My career in higher education spans more than a quarter of a century and an important thread through all of my work has been a dedication to honors education. I firmly believe that a vibrant and effective honors college propels student success, both within and beyond the college. I have taught honors courses, led honors programs, and consulted on programs at inflection points. I am active in the National Collegiate Honors Council and have several ongoing research projects around honors education. I have more to say about my views on honors education and those ideas can be seen in the webpages that begin here.