Stephen Fallon
Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, CSC, Professor of the Humanities
Professor 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 ofMilton among the Philosophers, winner of the Milton Society of America's Hanford Award, andMilton’s Peculiar Grace: Self-Representation and Authority(Cornell, 2007), winner of aChoiceMagazine Outstanding Academic Title award. He has co-editedThe Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Miltonwith William Kerrigan and John Rumrich for Random House/Modern Library (2007) and the Modern Library edition ofParadise Lost(2008), taken from the larger edition. His articles on Milton and on the Renaissance have appeared in various journals, includingPMLAand 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.
Story on World Masterpieces Seminars
Milton at 400: Interview on Australian National Public Radio
Video: SF on teaching at Notre Dame
Milton Society of America
What Would You Fight For tv spot
Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information
215 O'Shaughnessy
631-6598
fallon.1@nd.edu