Gordon Teskey
Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature
(On leave 2021-22)
(On leave 2021-22)

Education: B.A., Trent University (1976)
M.A., University of Toronto (1977)
Ph.D., University of Toronto (1981)
Interests: English Poetry, especially Milton, Spenser, Shakespeare, and the ‘metaphysicals’; History and Theory of Allegory; Continental Philosophy and Its Relation to Poetry; co-founder, “Seminar for Dialectical Thinking in the Humanities.”
Selected Works: Spenserian Moments (Harvard University Press); The Poetry of John Milton (Harvard University Press, 2015), Christian Gauss Prize; Delirious Milton (Harvard University Press, 2006; Allegory and Violence (Cornell University Press, 1996); editor of The Norton Edition of John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ (1st edition 2005, 2nd edition 2020)
Contact Information
Office: Barker 206
p: 617-495-3167
Office Hours: Wednesdays 2-4pm. Schedule via email.