Areas of Specialization

Renaissance literature and humanism; ancient literature and philosophy; literary criticism, scholarship, and theory; poetry and poetics; the essay; the passions; aesthetics

Books

Leonard Barkan, Bradin Cormack, Sean Keilen (Eds). The Forms of Renaissance Thought: New Essays in Literature and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Keilen, Sean. Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature. New Haven: Yale UP, 2006.

Background

B.A., Williams College;  B.A., Cambridge University; M.A., Cambridge University; M.A. and Ph.D., Stanford University