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Stephen Foley

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Advisor, Literatures Honors Program

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 303
Phone: (401) 863-3746

Courses '08-'09
  Sem I:
 ENGL 1991 - S01: Senior Honors Thesis in Literatures and Cultures in English -- CRN 11954
 ENGL 1992 - S01: Senior Honors Thesis in Literatures and Cultures in English (For students finishing in December) -- CRN 11957
 ENGL 2360K - S01: The Renaissance and Modernity -- CRN 15466

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Degrees
Ph.D. Yale University, 1979
M.A. Yale University, 1976
B.A. Brown University, 1974

Research Interests
European renaissance culture and letters, classical traditions, lyric poetry, religion and literature, literary theory, and aesthetics.

Professional Accomplishments
Foley is the author of Sir Thomas Wyatt, a study of the early sixteenth-century poet, co-author of Conventions and Choices, a handbook for writers, and co-editor of Sir Thomas More's Answer to a Poisoned Book, a work of religious controversy published in the Yale Edition of the Complete Works of Thomas More, and co-editor of a collection of essays on More and Erasmus in Moreana, the journal of Thomas More Studies. He has served as chair of the department of English at Brown, as the editor of Modern Language Studies, and as research editor for the Yale Edition of the Works of Thomas More. His article on Sir Thomas Elyot's Dictionary was awarded the Beatrice White Prize for excellence in renaissance studies by the English Association of Great Britain.