# Gordon Teskey Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature *Currently accepting graduate student advisees ![Gordon Teskey](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/english/files/teskey2014color.jpg?itok=0AZ5XNl9) location\_on Office: Barker 206 smartphone [617-495-3167](tel:617-495-3167) email Tuesdays 2-3pm and by appointment. Students should email ahead of time for a zoom link. Education: B.A., Trent University (1976) M.A., University of Toronto (1977) Ph.D., University of Toronto (1981) Interests: Renaissance English Poetry, especially Milton, Spenser, Shakespeare, and the “Metaphysicals”; History and Theory of Allegory; Philosophy and Its Relation to Poetry. Selected Works: “Allegory as Language Game: Spenser with Wittgenstein” (*Spenser Studies* 37, 2023); “The River Overflows: Consciousness in 'Upon Appleton House'” (“Imagining Andrew Marvell at 400,” *Proceedings of the British Academy*, 2022); “Bent Abstraction” (ELH 88:2, 2021); *Spenserian Moments* (Harvard University Press, 2019); *The Poetry of John Milton* (Harvard University Press, 2015, winner of 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 in 2005, 2nd edition in 2021). - ## Creative Writing Workshop Topic [Poetry](/course-topic/poetry) - ## Role [Faculty](/role/faculty)