Feisal G. Mohamed is a scholar, critic, and essayist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times series "The Stone,"[1] in Dissent Magazine,[2] the Chronicle Review,[3] the Yale Review,[4] The American Scholar,[5] Huffington Post,[6] Boston Review,[7] and on the website of The New Republic.[8] He is currently a Professor of English at Yale University. Among his awards and recognitions are a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation, an Honorable Mention for the Modern Language Association's William Riley Parker Prize, and a James Holly Hanford Award for an outstanding book on poet John Milton. He holds a BSc in Biology (1997) and MA in English (1999) from the University of Ottawa, a PhD in English (2003) from the University of Toronto, and an LLM (2012) from the University of Illinois College of Law.[9] Mohamed's academic writing focuses on early modern English literature, as in his books Sovereignty (2020); Milton and the Post-secular Present (2011); In the Anteroom of Divinity (2008); Milton and Questions of History (2012), co-edited with Mary Nyquist; and Milton's Modernities (2017), co-edited with Patrick Fadely. He is a past president of the Milton Society of America and editorial board member of the journals Milton Studies, ELH, Literature and Theology, and Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor. Responding to widespread defunding of public higher education and of the humanities in particular, often referred to as the "crisis in the humanities," he co-edited with Gordon Hutner the volume A New Deal for the Humanities: Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education (2016). Ideas with which Mohamed is associated are postsecularism and tyrannicide.
Mohamed is an Egyptian-Canadian born in Edmonton, Alberta.[10] He currently lives in Wilton, Connecticut with his wife, Sally, and two daughters.[11]
· Sovereignty: Seventeenth-Century England and the Making of the Modern Political Imaginary
· Milton and the Post-Secular Present: Ethics, Politics, Terrorism
· In the Anteroom of Divinity: The Reformation of the Angels from Colet to Milton
· Milton's Modernities: Poetry, Philosophy, and History from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, edited with Patrick Fadely
· A New Deal for the Humanities: Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education, edited with Gordon Hutner
· Milton and Questions of History: Essays by Canadians Past and Present, edited with Mary Nyquist