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Professor
Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of English
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- ProfessorFaculty of Arts and Science, Department of English
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BIO
Paul Downes is Professor of English and American Literature in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature and in the relationship between literature and political philosophy. He is the author of Democracy, Revolution and Monarchism in Early American Literature (Cambridge, 2002) and Hobbes, Sovereignty and Early American Literature (Cambridge, 2015). He is currently writing on the politics and aesthetics of protection from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
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ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Toronto, Department of English, Toronto, Canada1996 - 2001
- Associate ProfessorUniversity of Toronto, Department of English, Toronto, Canada2001 - 2018
- ProfessorUniversity of Toronto, Department of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2018 - present
DEGREES
- B.A.York University, Toronto, Canada
- Ph.D.Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
CERTIFICATIONS
- Mellon FellowshipGraduate Study in the Humanities
- Outstanding First BookModern Language Association Prize
AVAILABILITY
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