This Quest Scholar of the week, for March 18-22, 2013, was Associate Professor of English, Dr. Anthony Welch. 
Dr. Welch specializes in English Renaissance literature with an emphasis on seventeenth-century literature and the writings of John Milton. His book The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past was recently published by Yale University Press as part of its Yale Studies in English series. The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past considers the complex relationship between sixteenth and seventeenth–century literary epics and the oral tradition out of which the epic emerged.