Dr. Douglas Trevor

Biography

Douglas Trevor is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his PhD in Renaissance Literature from Harvard University in 1999. His work includes a variety of scholarly publications in venues such as Shakespeare Studies, Montaigne Studies, and the Sixteenth Century Journal, as well as contributions to numerous anthologies. He is the author of several fiction collections, including "Wonders" and "Girls Know," which won the 2013 Balcones Fiction Prize. His academic interests focus on early modern literature, particularly the works of Shakespeare, John Donne, and John Milton. He has served as a writer-in-residence at the Ucross Foundation and has held the title of Theodore Morrison Fellow in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Trevor teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in literary studies and creative writing, encouraging students to engage deeply with texts and develop their own creative voices.

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