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Paul Downes

Professor

Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of English

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  • Professor
    Faculty 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 Professor
    University of Toronto, Department of English, Toronto, Canada1996 - 2001
  • Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, Department of English, Toronto, Canada2001 - 2018
  • Professor
    University of Toronto, Department of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2018 - present

DEGREES

  • B.A.
    York University, Toronto, Canada
  • Ph.D.
    Cornell University, Ithaca, United States

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Mellon Fellowship
    Graduate Study in the Humanities
  • Outstanding First Book
    Modern Language Association Prize

AVAILABILITY

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