Stephen Fallon

Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, CSC, Professor of the Humanities

Stephen Fallon

Professor, Program of Liberal Studies
Professor, Department of English

A.B., Princeton University; M.A., McGill University; Ph.D., University of Virginia

Research Profile

A scholar of Milton and early modern literature and intellectual history, Fallon is the author of Milton among the Philosophers, winner of the Milton Society of America's Hanford Award, and Milton’s Peculiar Grace: Self-Representation and Authority (Cornell, 2007), winner of a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title award. He has co-edited The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton with William Kerrigan and John Rumrich for Random House/Modern Library (2007) and the Modern Library edition of Paradise Lost (2008), taken from the larger edition. His articles on Milton and on the Renaissance have appeared in various journals, including PMLA and theJournal of the History of Ideas, and in multi-contributor volumes. Fallon is on the Editorial Board of the Yale Milton Encyclopedia. He has won two NEH Fellowships, and has been a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Fallon has been named Honored Scholar for 2011, the Milton Society of America's lifetime achievement award. In 2001, he received the Charles Sheedy Award for Teaching in the College of Arts & Letters. With Clark Power, he co-founded and continues to teach a course in literary and philosophical classics at the South Bend Center for the Homeless.

Milton Marathon 2011

Story on World Masterpieces Seminars

Milton at 400: Interview on Australian National Public Radio

Video: Stephen Fallon on Teaching at Notre Dame

English Department Profile

Milton Society of America
What Would You Fight For TV Spot

Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

215 O'Shaughnessy
574-631-6598
fallon.1@nd.edu