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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 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” is forthcoming from Diacritics.

    Research Keywords

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

  • 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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