Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois

Feisal Mohamed

Associate Professor of English

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Education

PhD (Toronto, 2003)

Research Interests

Feisal Mohamed specializes in non-dramatic British literature of the seventeenth century, and has an especial interest in religious liberty in the early modern period and our own time. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Milton Society of America.

Selected Publications

Books

  • Milton and the Post-Secular Present: Ethics, Politics, Terrorism. Palo Alto: Stanford UP, 2011.
  • In the Anteroom of Divinity: The Reformation of the Angels from Colet to Milton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.

Book Contributions

  • "Donne, Milton, and the Two Traditions of Religious Liberty." A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010. 289-303.

Journal Articles

  • "Poignancy as Human-Rights Aesthetic." Journal of Human Rights 9 (2010): 143-60.
  • "Liberty Before and After Liberalism: Milton’s Shifting Politics and the Current Crisis in Liberal Theory." Special issue, “Milton in America.” Ed. Paul Stevens. University of Toronto Quarterly 77 (2008): 940-60.
  • "Reading Samson in the New American Century." Milton Studies 46 (2007): 149-64.
  • "Confronting Religious Violence: Milton’s Samson Agonistes." PMLA 120 (2005): 327-40.
  • "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.

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