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Michael Bryson
Assistant Professor of English
California State University, Northridge |
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My research and teaching focuses on questions of authority and its
construction. I have special interest in how those questions and
constructions are manifested in the early modern era, but my interest
(even passion) transcends period. My book,
The
Tyranny of Heaven: Milton’s Rejection of God as King,
focuses this interest on John Milton and the English 17th
century, a place and time in which questions of freedom and authority
eventually brought a nation to revolution, civil war, and a failed
attempt to permanently overthrow a centuries-old tradition of
monarchical government. |
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My current projects
include an essay on Negative Theology and Samson Agonistes
in the March 2008 issue of Milton
Quarterly. This
is based on my seminar presentation at the
Newberry Library Milton Seminar in Chicago, May 2005, and a
shorter form of that essay that was presented at the
International Milton Conference in Grenoble, France in June 2005.
I also have recently contributed a chapter on the 1667 edition of
Paradise Lost for a book edited by John Shawcross and
Michael Lieb for Duquesne UP.
I wasn't always an academic, however.
In a previous life, I tried to crack the only job market in the
Western World that is even tighter than academia---the music business.
Here are a couple of samples (#1 and #2) of me as a guitar player (in the years before Milton and graduate school...).
I still play (at home--in the kitchen in the picture to the right), but writing and teaching take up most of my time these
days.
Once upon a time, I used to try my hand at poetry too...such as it is.
By the way, here is a fun little toy I cooked up while at a
conference years ago. |
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