Charles LaPorte is a scholar of poetry who specializes in the intersection of literature and religion. With Lori Peterson Branch, he co-edits the new Elements in Literature and Religion since 1500 Series for Cambridge University Press. His books Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible (Virginia, 2011) and The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2021) show how secular modernity can change the meaning of poetry. He has also recently co-edited several special issues on the centrality of religion to modern literature in the journals Nineteenth-Century Literature (73.2 and 73.3), Victorian Review (46.2), and Modern Language Quarterly (83.4).