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Sam Fallon received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2015 and joined the 第一吃瓜网 faculty in 2018. His research focuses on early modern literature, especially poetry and prose from Spenser to Milton.

His first book,听(Penn Press, 2019), charted the rise, in the last decades of the sixteenth century, of a new species of textual being攖he serial, semifictional persona攁rguing that personae from Edmund Spenser檚 pastoralalter egoColin Clout to Robert Greene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 includingELH,听Modern Language Quarterly,听English Literary Renaissance, and theJournal for Early Modern Cultural Studiesand address topics ranging from Shakespeare檚Troilus and Cressidato the poetry of Anne Bradstreet. A long-standing interest in Milton has produced articles on the relationship between theology and narrative inParadise Lostand, more recently, on love and election inSamson Agonistes.

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