Feisal G. Mohamed

Feisal G. Mohamed is a scholar, critic, and essayist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times series "The Stone,"[1] in Dissent Magazine,[2] the Chronicle Review,[3] the Yale Review,[4] The American Scholar,[5] Huffington Post,[6] Boston Review,[7] and on the website of The New Republic.

Among his awards and recognitions are a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation, an Honorable Mention for the Modern Language Association's William Riley Parker Prize, and a James Holly Hanford Award for an outstanding book on poet John Milton.

[9] Mohamed's academic writing focuses on early modern English literature, as in his books Sovereignty (2020); Milton and the Post-secular Present (2011); In the Anteroom of Divinity (2008); Milton and Questions of History (2012), co-edited with Mary Nyquist; and Milton's Modernities (2017), co-edited with Patrick Fadely.

He is a past president of the Milton Society of America and editorial board member of the journals Milton Studies, ELH, Literature and Theology, and Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor.

· Sovereignty: Seventeenth-Century England and the Making of the Modern Political Imaginary (ISBN 978-0-1988-5213-1) · Milton and the Post-Secular Present: Ethics, Politics, Terrorism (ISBN 978-0-8047-7651-6) · In the Anteroom of Divinity: The Reformation of the Angels from Colet to Milton (ISBN 978-0-8020-9792-7) · Milton's Modernities: Poetry, Philosophy, and History from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, edited with Patrick Fadely (ISBN 978-0-8101-3533-8) · A New Deal for the Humanities: Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education, edited with Gordon Hutner (ISBN 978-0-8135-7323-6) · Milton and Questions of History: Essays by Canadians Past and Present, edited with Mary Nyquist (ISBN 978-1-4426-4392-5)