Prof. Griffin joined Georgia Southern University in 2000 and retired in 2026.

 

— Biography from the 2026 Spring Commencement program —   

 

Dr. Julia Griffin, Professor of English, who retired January 1, 2026, after teaching at Georgia Southern for 25 years.  Dr. Griffin holds a BA from Cambridge University (1985) and an MPhil (1988) and PhD (1995) from the University of Oxford.  She has published several articles on Renaissance literature in Shakespeare Survey and other journals, and two editions: one of selected poems of three seventeenth-century poets; one of the works of Anne Steele, an 18th-century Nonconformist writer, much of whose work was previously unpublished.  She has given 40 conference presentations, in the US and abroad. For three years, she served on the Bainton Book Prize Committee for the Sixteenth-Century Society. As a contributor to CORD, the online Compendium of Renaissance Drama, she provided analyses of 14 plays.  At Georgia Southern, she has taught 23 different courses, some at undergraduate and some at graduate level.  She has co-advised our branch of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English Honors Society, for 25 years; for the last ten, she has served as assessor for the national organization’s essay contests.  She has served as member, chair, and co-chair of CURIO, the College of Arts and Humanities’ annual symposium, for several years.  In the last eight, she has published approximately a thousand poems and won awards for some.  She has co-edited a collection of creative work inspired by pre-modern literature which will soon appear with Routledge. For her many contributions to her f ield and to the institution, Dr. Julia Griffin is deserving of the title Professor of English Emerita.*