Public profile
Research areas
Early Modern Literature; Histories of Philosophy and Science; Poetry and Poetics; Marxism; Biopolitics; Virtue Ethics; Classical Reception; Ecocriticism & Environmental Humanities
Department of English and Creative Writing
Benjamin Parris
Assistant Professor
Average rating
3.6
17 temporary mock ratings
Difficulty
3.5
course-linked average
Courses
2
in seeded sections
Courses taught
ENGL 328
John Milton: Radical
A course on the major poems of John Milton, with emphasis on Paradise Lost and early modern ethics, theology, and science.
EnglishNone3 credits
3.37.0hParris, Benjamin
ENGL 529
Milton And The Romantics
This graduate seminar introduces students to a selection of major works of poetry by John Milton as well as works by later English Romantic writers such as Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge, and Shelly that respond to Milton’s legacy. It will serve students as a survey of crucial English writers from the early modern and Romantic periods as well as an occasion to study and theorize how both Milton and Romantic poets think about literary influence as well as poetry’s connections to liberty, ecology, imagination, ethics, political economy, beauty and the sublime.
EnglishNone3 credits
4.09.6hParris, Benjamin