Karis Riley

Karis Riley is a literary scholar of Medieval and Renaissance Literature. She was a postdoctoral research associate on the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge for the AHRC project Remembering the Reformation (2018-2019). She has a BA in philosophy from Wheaton College, IL (2012), a PhD in English Literature from the University of York (2016), and a Master’s in Classics from the University of Oxford (2017). She is currently preparing her first book, Milton's Passions, which investigates the complex and varied relationship between emotion, morality, and literary history from the Plato to the Renaissance with a particular focus on the poet John Milton. She has published in Renaissance Studies, The Seventeenth Century, and Routledge’s Remembering the Medieval and Early Modern World series and has spoken at the Renaissance Society of America. Karis is married to Malcolm and together they started Trinity Church Central London in 2014, an evangelical church-plant and community in the capital city.