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Steven Minas

Instructor
Steven Minas
Email sminas@usc.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. English Literature, University of Southern California, 8/2022
  • MA Georgetown University, 5/2015
  • BA University of Arizona, 5/2012

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    Steven’s research focuses on Milton and the early modern period with a broad interest in Poetics. He has published on Milton’s use of allusion in Milton Studies and his work on the history of “creative criticism” has recently appeared in Diacritics. Steven is co-editor of the book, The Sound of the Past: Modernist Echoes and Incantations in Eliot, H.D., and Woolf.

    Research Keywords

    Milton, Shakespeare, Epic Poetry, Allusion, Criticism, Theory, Style, Literary Thinking, Cognition, Critical Semantics, Genre, Fragment, Pastoral (Bucolic), The Sublime, Virtue Ethics

    • (Fall 2022) GESM 110. Seminar in the Arts – The Color of Imagination, MWF, 11:00am – 11:50am, CPA207
    • (Fall 2022) GESM 120. Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry – Sympathy for the Devil, MWF, 09:00am – 09:50am, OFFICE
    • (Fall 2022) GESM 120. Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry – Sympathy for the Devil, MWF, 10:00am – 10:50am, GFS201
    • (Spring 2023) ENGL 262. English Literature since 1800, TTh, 03:30pm – 04:50pm
    • (Spring 2023) GESM 120. Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry – Sympathy for the Devil, TTh, 09:30am – 10:50am, GFS228
    • (Spring 2023) GESM 120. Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry – Sympathy for the Devil, TTh, 12:30pm – 01:50pm, WPHB30
    • (Fall 2023) ENGL 230g. Shakespeare and His Times, MW, 08:30am – 09:50am
    • (Fall 2023) ENGL 270. Studying Narrative, TTh, 09:30am – 10:50am
    • (Fall 2023) ENGL 361. Contemporary Prose, MWF, 10:00am – 10:50am, THH112
    • (Spring 2024) ENGL 261. English Literature to 1800, TTh, 12:30pm – 01:50pm
    • (Spring 2024) ENGL 262. English Literature since 1800, TTh, 02:00pm – 03:20pm
    • (Spring 2024) ENGL 466. The 19th Century English Novel, TTh, 09:30am – 10:50am
    • (Fall 2024) ENGL 261. English Literature to 1800, TTh, 02:00pm – 03:20pm
    • (Fall 2024) ENGL 361. Contemporary Prose, TTh, 09:30am – 10:50am
    • (Fall 2024) ENGL 430. Shakespeare, TTh, 12:30pm – 01:50pm
    • (Spring 2025) ENGL 230. Shakespeare and His Times, MW, 02:00pm – 03:20pm, THH102
    • (Spring 2025) ENGL 261. English Literature to 1800, MWF, 12:00pm – 12:50pm, THH203
    • (Spring 2025) GESM 120. Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry – Sympathy for the Devil, MWF, 11:00am – 11:50am, DMC255
    • (Fall 2025) ENGL 261. English Literature to 1800, TTh, 02:00pm – 03:20pm, THH205
    • (Fall 2025) ENGL 422. English Literature of the 17th Century, TTh, 03:30pm – 04:50pm
    • (Spring 2026) ENGL 297. Introduction to the Genre of Nonfiction, MW, 02:00pm – 03:20pm

  • Journal Article

    • Minas, S. A. (2024). Bloom’s Anxiety 50 Years Later: A Case for Creative Criticism. Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism. Vol. 51 (3)
    • Minas, S. A. (2019). “‘The heat of Milton’s mind’: Allusion as a Mode of Thinking in Paradise Lost”. Milton Studies. Vol. 61 (2), pp. 186-211.

  • Other Service to the University

    • Assistant Editor, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation., 08/16/2019 –
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