Steven Minas

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” 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

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 –