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Sam Fallon received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2015 and joined the 黑料传送门 faculty in 2018. His research focuses on early modern literature, especially poetry and prose from Spenser to Milton.

His first book,听聽(Penn Press, 2019), charted the rise, in the last decades of the sixteenth century, of a new species of textual being鈥攖he serial, semifictional persona鈥攁rguing that personae from Edmund Spenser鈥檚 pastoral聽alter ego聽Colin Clout to Robert Greene鈥檚 revenant ghost animated the burgeoning literary field of late Elizabethan England, enabling writers to reckon with the new forms of mediation and publicity that framed the scene of literary production and reception.

His articles have appeared in journals including聽ELH,听Modern Language Quarterly,听English Literary Renaissance, and the聽Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies聽and address topics ranging from Shakespeare鈥檚聽Troilus and Cressida聽to the poetry of Anne Bradstreet. A long-standing interest in Milton has produced articles on the relationship between theology and narrative in聽Paradise Lost聽and, more recently, on love and election in聽Samson Agonistes.

He is currently at work on a book on Renaissance conceptions of literary character. Provisionally titled 鈥淥ne of a Kind: Character and Abstraction from Spenser to Milton,鈥� the book examines the forms of typological thinking through which the individuating effects of character unexpectedly emerge. It considers a series of characters聽whose individuality emerges not in spite of but through their perception of themselves as indefinite, typical, ordinary, commonplace鈥攁s generic rather than special.