Professor Paul Stevens FRSC is Canada Research Chair in Early Modern Literature & Culture at the University of Toronto. His area of specialty is seventeenth-century English literature, especially the works of John Milton. His first book was Imagination and the Presence of Shakespeare in “Paradise Lost” and his most recent, Early Modern Nationalism and Milton’s England, is a co-edited volume which won the 2009 Irene Samuel Memorial Prize. He is currently completing a new book, Sola Gratia: English Literature and the Secular Ways of Grace, for which he was awarded a 2012-2013 Guggenheim Fellowship. He will be Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford during 2015-2016.
