Paul Stevens | Milton's Satan and the Ways We Think About Evil
Isabel Bader Theatre
Everyone is welcome.
Date: Oct. 18, 2023
Speaker: Paul Stevens
Paul Stevens is Professor and former Canada Research Chair in Early Modern Literature & Culture. His area of expertise is seventeenth-century English literature, especially the works of John Milton. He has written and lectured widely on literary history, religion, colonialism, and nationalism. His first book was Imagination and the Presence of Shakespeare in Paradise Lost (1985) and most recent The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War (2021). At the moment, he is working on a Guggenheim-funded book called Sola Gratia: English Culture and the Secular Ways of Grace. Professor Stevens began his teaching career at Victoria College as a teaching assistant for Northrop Frye before heading off to his first professorship in Virginia. In 2007 he was elected to a visiting fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, and his most recent teaching prizes include the Northrop Frye Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research (2008), Finalist for the TVO Best Lecturer Competition (2009), and the President’s Teaching Award (2010).
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