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Paul Downes is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature and the relationship between literature and political philosophy. He is the author of 'Democracy, Revolution, Monarchism: Early American Literature' (Cambridge, 2002) and 'Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature' (Cambridge, 2015). He is currently writing on the politics of aesthetics in the protection of literature from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Downes has contributed to notable journals and compilations with publications including 'Inscrutable Malice: Moby Dick and Resistance to Capital' and 'The “Mystical Cosmetic”: White Light Ideology and Energy in Moby Dick'. His research interests encompass American Literature, Environmental Humanities, and Literary Critical Theory, focusing on themes such as political philosophy and Marxist theory.
University of Toronto • Toronto, Canada
Full-time role as a faculty member specializing in American literature.
Department of Sociology