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] and on the website of The New Republic.[7] He is currently a professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. 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. He holds a BSc in Biology (1997) and MA in English (1999) from the University of Ottawa, a PhD in English (2003) from the University of Toronto, and an LLM (2012) from the University of Illinois College of Law.[8]
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. Journals in which his work has appeared include Milton Quarterly, Milton Studies, PMLA, Journal of the History of Ideas, University of Toronto Quarterly, and Huntington Library Quarterly. He is a past president of the Milton Society of America and editorial board member of Milton Studies. Responding to widespread defunding of public higher education and of the humanities in particular, often referred to as the "crisis in the humanities," he co-edited with Gordon Hutner the volume A New Deal for the Humanities: Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education (2016).
Ideas with which Mohamed is associated are postsecularism and tyrannicide. His work has frequently engaged in a critique of US policy and culture, liberal and conservative, surrounding the "war on terror," and he has written regularly on the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Mohamed is an Egyptian-Canadian born in Edmonton, Alberta.[9] He currently lives in South Orange, New Jersey with his wife, Sally, and two daughters.[10]
Bibliography
· 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)
References
- ^ "Entries by Feisal G. Mohamed". nytmes.com.
- ^ "Feisal G. Mohamed author page". Dissent Magazine.
- ^ Mohamed, Feisal G. and Cary Nelson. "A Growing Hunt for Heretics?". chronicle.com.
- ^ https://yalereview.yale.edu/search/node/mohamed
- ^ https://theamericanscholar.org/occupational-hazards/#
- ^ "Feisal G. Mohamed author page". Huffington Post.
- ^ Hutner, Gordon and Feisal G. Mohamed. "The Real Crisis in the Humanities is Happening at Public Universities". tnr.com.
- ^ "Feisal G. Mohamed". Contemporary Authors Online. 2013.
- ^ Mohamed, Feisal G. "The Globe of Villages: Digital Media and the Rise of Homegrown Terrorism". Dissent Magazine.
- ^ Hutner, Gordon and Feisal G. Mohamed (2016). A New Deal for the Humanities: Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. p. x.