Stephen M. Fallon
Concurrent Professor, Department of English
Professor, Program of Liberal Studies
Specialty
Seventeenth-century literature, Milton, literature and the history of philosophy
Degrees
A.B., Princeton University; M.A., McGill University; Ph.D., University of Virginia
Profile
A scholar of Milton and early modern literature and intellectual history, Stephen Fallon has written two books on Milton, one examining his materialism in light of seventeenth-century philosophical debates and the other exploring his anomalous self-representations against the background of conventional Puritan autobiography. He has also co-edited Milton’s complete poetry and selected prose. While continuing to study the philosophical and theological contexts of seventeenth-century literature, he is also interested in the literary analysis of early modern philosophical texts. Fallon is on the Editorial Board of the Yale Milton Encyclopedia. He has twice been an NEH Fellow as well as a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. With Clark Power, he co-founded and continues to teach a course on literary and philosophical classics at the South Bend Center for the Homeless.
Selected Publications
Milton, John. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose. Edited by Stephen Fallon, William Kerrigan, John Rumrich. New York: Random House, forthcoming 2007.
Milton’s Peculiar Grace: Self-representation and Authority. Ithaca: NY: Cornell University Press, 2007.
Milton Among the Philosophers: Poetry and Materialism in Seventeenth-Century England. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991 (paperback edition, Cornell UP, 2006).
“Paradise Lost in Intellectual History." In A Companion to Milton, edited by Thomas N. Corns, 329-47. Oxford, Blackwell, 2001.
“Hunting the Fox: Equivocation and Authorial Duplicity in The Prince.” PMLA 107 (1992): 1181-95.
Recent Awards and Honors
Plenary speaker, International Milton Symposium, Grenoble, France, June 2006.
Charles Sheedy Award for Teaching, College of Arts and Letters, 2001.
Contact Information
368 Decio Faculty Hall
(574) 631-6598
fallon.1@nd.edu