Stanley Stewart, Distinguished Professor
Ph.D. UCLA

(951) 827-1860
stanley.stewart@ucr.edu

Stanley Stewart (B.A., M.A., Ph.D. UCLA) is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Enclosed Garden: The Tradition and the Image in 17th-Century Poetry (Wisconsin 1966), The Expanded Voice: The Art of Thomas Traherne (Huntington Library 1970), and George Herbert (G.K. Hall 1976). He is coauthor, with Bernd Magnus and Peter Mileur, of Nietzsche's Case: Philosophy as/and Literature (Routledge 1992) and, with James Riddell, of Jonson's Spenser: Evidence and Historical Criticism , (Duquesne 1995). Coeditor of The Ben Jonson Journal: Literary Contexts in the Age of Elizabeth, James, and Charles , he serves on the editorial boards of John Donne Journal: Studies in the Age of Donne and Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition . His most recent publications are "Renaissance" Talk: Ordinary Language and the Mystique of Critical Problems (Duquesne 1997), "`New' Guides to the Historically Perplexed" ( Neo-historicism , ed. Robin Headlam-Wells [Boydell & Brewer 2000]), and The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson (Cambridge UP 2000), which he edited with Richard Harp, and to which he contributed a chapter on "Jonson's Criticism." A former Guggenheim and Mellon Fellow, currently working on "Philosophy's Shakespeare," he has been honored by the Academic Senate as a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award and as Faculty Research Lecturer (2000).