Research Interests
Milton, current discourses on religious violence and radicalism as related to those of the seventeenth century.
Publications
In the Anteroom of Divinity: The Reformation of the Angels from Colet to Milton (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming). • "Liberty Before and After Liberalism: Miltons Shifting Politics and the Current Crisis in Liberal Theory." University of Toronto Quarterly. Special issue, Miltons America/Americas Milton. Ed. Paul Stevens (forthcoming). • "Reading Samson in the New American Century." Milton Studies 46 (2007): 149-64. • "The Globe of Villages: Digital Media and the Rise of Homegrown Terrorism." Dissent Magazine, Winter 2007: 61-64. • "Confronting Religious Violence: Milton's Samson Agonistes." PMLA 120 (2005): 327-40; recipient of Honorable Mention for the Modern Language Associations William Riley Parker Prize. • "Renaissance Thought on the Celestial Hierarchy: The Decline of a Tradition?" Journal of the History of Ideas 65 (2004): 559-82. • "Paradise Lost and the Inversion of Catholic Angelology." Milton Quarterly 36 (2002): 240-52. • "Pan-Semitism in A. M. Klein's 'The Three Judgements.'" Essays on Canadian Writing 72 (2000): 93-108.
Work in Progress
A book manuscript on Milton and current climates in criticism and politics; a collection of criticism by Canadian Miltonists, co-edited with Mary Nyquist.
Teaching
Milton, Donne, Spenser, and various seventeenth-century English writers. Courses for Fall 2007: ENGL 101, Poetry; ENGL 455, John Donne: Thought and Feeling
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