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Department of

English

Abraham Stoll, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, English

Abraham Stoll, Ph.D., specializes in Renaissance and early modern literature, particularly the literature of seventeenth-century England. He has recently published a book on the poetry and theology of John Milton, and has edited a new edition of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. He has taught at the University of San Diego since 2000. Stoll was visiting professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 2006-07.

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University (2000)
B.A., Yale University
Berkeley High School (1987)

 

Scholarly and Creative Work

Recent Publications:
Milton and Monotheism. Duquesne University Press, 2009.
General Editor, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, 5 vol. Hackett Publishing, 2006-7.
Editor, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book Five. Hackett Publishing, 2006.
Macbeth's Equivocal Conscience, in Macbeth: New Critical Essays. Routledge, 2008.
Discontinuous Wound: Milton and Deism. Milton Studies 44 (2005).

Stoll is currently working on a book about conscience in the early modern period.

Teaching Interests

Stoll teaches a number of courses in the early modern period, including Renaissance Poetry, Literature and Culture of the Renaissance, Milton, Spenser, Introduction to Shakespeare, Advanced Studies in Shakespeare, and British Literature to 1800. He has also worked with the Theatre Department, and taught in the Honors Program and the preceptorial program.