Michael Benjamin Prince

Associate Professor of English, Department of English

Michael Prince teaches Restoration and eighteenth-century literature. His teaching interests also include Jewish-American fiction and the literature of the Holocaust. Professor Prince’s research focuses on Enlightenment philosophy and literature, as well as composition theory and pedagogy. Recent publications include Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 1996; reprint, 2005), as well as essays on the third Earl of Shaftesbury, genre theory, and philosophical aesthetics. His current book project is a history of early English deism.