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.^[8] He is currently a Professor of English at Yale University. 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.^[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. 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.

Mohamed is an Egyptian-Canadian born in Edmonton, Alberta.^[10] He currently lives in Wilton, Connecticut with his wife, Sally, and two daughters.^[11]