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      • Offered 2022-23
        • HUMS 021, Six Pretty Good Heroes
        • HUMS 022, Six Pretty Good Biographers
        • HUMS 023, Six Pretty Good Visions
        • HUMS 027, Six Pretty Good Selves
        • HUMS 029, Medicine and the Humanities: Certainty and Unknowing
        • HUMS 059, Why the Sublime? Or, The Meaning and Value of Transcendence through Theory, Poetry, and Art
        • HUMS 060, Novel Novels
        • HUMS 065, Education and the Life Worth Living
        • HUMS 073, Classical Storytelling in the Modern World
        • HUMS 075, Mastering the Art of Watercolor
        • HUMS 096, Collecting History: Treasures of Yale
      • Archive
        • HUMS 005, The Ancient Egyptian Empire of the New Kingdom
        • HUMS 024, Six Pretty Good Poems
        • HUMS 025, Six Pretty Good Buildings
        • HUMS 026, Six Pretty Good Journeys
        • HUMS 035, The American Death Penalty
        • HUMS 066, The Crown
        • HUMS 069, Dismantling Narratives of Empire
        • HUMS 070, Self and Other
        • HUMS 092, Divine Law in Historical Perspective
        • HUMS 095, Certain Uncertainties: Literature, Physics, Philosophy
        • Truth and Post-Truth (Spring 2021)
        • Intellectual Circles (Fall)
        • Six Pretty Good Books, HUMS 82a (Fall)
        • Two Cultures: Science and Humanities (Fall)
        • Fantasy in Literature and Film (Spring)
    • Humanities Major
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      • Featured Courses
        • Offered Fall 2022
          • HUMS 115, Purposes of College Education
          • HUMS 127, Tragedy in the European Literary Tradition
          • HUMS 128, From Gilgamesh to Persepolis
          • HUMS 139, Western Philosophy in Four Operas 1600-1900
          • HUMS 180, Dante in Translation
          • HUMS 193, Screening the Past
          • HUMS 195, Thinking Literature in German Modernism
          • HUMS 199, American Romanticism: Emerson to Ashbery
          • HUMS 211, Fate and Chance in Art and Experience
          • HUMS 229, Latin American Languages of Liberation: The Long Sixties
          • HUMS 233, Classics of the Arabic-Islamic World
          • HUMS 245, Poets and their Papers
          • HUMS 253, Poetry and Faith
          • HUMS 255, Tolstoy's War and Peace
          • HUMS 261, The Making of a Political Novel: Acts of Censorship and the Novel
          • HUMS 263, Thucydides
          • HUMS 270, The Chinese Tradition
          • HUMS 274, The Education of Princes: Medieval Advice Literature of Rulership and Counsel
          • HUMS 275, Literatures of the Plague
          • HUMS 276, Non-Cynical Social Thought
          • HUMS 279, Democracy and the French Revolution
          • HUMS 284, The Tale of Genji
          • HUMS 323, Truth and Sedition
          • HUMS 327, The Victorian Political Novel
          • HUMS 331, Adapting to the Stage
          • HUMS 336, Culture and Human Evolution
          • HUMS 339, European Intellectual History Since Nietzsche
          • HUMS 358, Modernist Paris and Moscow
          • HUMS 375, Greek Tragedy and Psychoanalysis
          • HUMS 381, Jazz in America 1900-1960
          • HUMS 391, The Bible in German-Jewish Modernist Literature
          • HUMS 430, Thought Experiments
          • HUMS 480, The Mortality of the Soul: From Aristotle to Heidegger
        • Archive
          • HUMS 116, Contexts of College Education
          • HUMS 130, How to Read
          • HUMS 136, Writing the Gift: Creativity and Exchange
          • HUMS 133, The Bible
          • HUMS 140, The Hero in Ancient Near East
          • HUMS 134, The Multicultural Middle Ages
          • HUMS 144, The Roman Republic
          • HUMS 175, Reading the Russian Revolution
          • HUMS 179, Shakespeare's Political Plays
          • HUMS 184, Writing and Reading Biography
          • HUMS 185, Writing about Contemporary Figurative Art
          • HUMS 192, Intellectuals and Power in Europe
          • HUMS 200, Medieval Songlines
          • HUMS 201, The Modern French Novel
          • HUMS 205, Boundaries of the Body in Law and Literature
          • HUMS 206, The Arabian Nights, Then and Now
          • HUMS 208, Poe and Kafka
          • HUMS 209, The Poetry of Wordsworth and Shelley
          • HUMS 210, Women in the Middle Ages
          • HUMS 211, Beauty and the Good Life
          • HUMS 212, Mystical Poetry of Judaism and Islam
          • HUMS 213, Global Shakespeares
          • HUMS 214, Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
          • HUMS 215, The Poetry of Vision: East and West
          • HUMS 216, Democracy and Race in America
          • HUMS 217, Classical Storytelling in the Modern World
          • HUMS 218, Storytelling and Contemporary TV
          • HUMS 219, Biomedical Futures and Michael Crichton's Monsters
          • HUMS 220, Collecting Nature
          • HUMS 222, Science and Narrative
          • HUMS 224, Hobbes and Galileo
          • HUMS 236, Goethe's Faust
          • HUMS 227, The Art of Dionysos
          • HUMS 228, Climate Change and the Humanities
          • HUMS 231, Poetic Influence from Shakespeare to the Twenty-First Century
          • HUMS 241, James Baldwin's American Scene
          • HUMS 241, Baseball as Grand Strategy
          • HUMS 242, Middle East in French Literature & Art
          • HUMS 247, Material Culture and Iconic Consciousness
          • HUMS 248, Monuments and Memorials: Shaping Historical Memory
          • HUMS 251, Rewriting Ancient Greek Classics in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
          • HUMS 252, Poetry and Objects
          • HUMS 254, Literature and Philosophy, Revolution to Romanticism
          • HUMS 264, Imagining the Body Politic
          • HUMS 267, Anti-Semitism in American History
          • HUMS 287, The Theory and Practice of Resistance
          • HUMS 291, The Real and the Virtual in Literature and Film
          • HUMS 295, Trials of Uncertainty
          • HUMS 302, Demogoguery and Democracy
          • HUMS 304, Women in Greek Political Thought
          • HUMS 305, Sages of the Ancient World
          • HUMS 313, Philosophy of Dissent in Central and Eastern Europe
          • HUMS 316, World Order in Liberal Arts
          • HUMS 317, The Death Sentence
          • HUMS 318, War and its Literature
          • HUMS 320, Representations of the Underworld
          • HUMS 322, German Novels After 1945
          • HUMS 340, The Detective Story
          • HUMS 348, Literature and Film of World War II
          • HUMS 359, Cinema and Physics
          • HUMS 360, Nostalgia Epidemic and Cure
          • HUMS 361, Game of Thrones and the Theory of Sovereignty
          • HUMS 367, Heimito von Doderer's The Strudlhof Steps
          • HUMS 368, Alienation, Reconciliation from Hegel to the Ecological Rift
          • HUMS 370, Fictions of the Harlem Vogue: Novels, Short Stories, and Novellas of the “Harlem Renaissance”
          • HUMS 371, The Picturebook: Euro-American and Japanese Traditions
          • HUMS 372, Critique and Crisis
          • HUMS 374, Greed and Its Discontents: From Aristotle to the Present
          • HUMS 377, Nature Poetry, from the Classics to Climate Change
          • HUMS 379, Media of Migration
          • HUMS 380, The Bible as a Literature
          • HUMS 382, Nature and Human Nature
          • HUMS 385, The Deep: Representations of the Sea
          • HUMS 412, Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere
          • HUMS 414, Georg Büchner's Revolutions
          • HUMS 416, The Crisis of Liberalism
          • HUMS 427, The Practice of Literary Translation
          • HUMS 428, Advanced Literary Translation
          • HUMS 443, Medieval Jews, Christians, and Muslims
          • HUMS 452, Translating Dante
          • HUMS 454, Interpreting Film Masterpieces
          • HUMS 463, Critical Theories of Science and Religion
          • HUMS 465, Art and Philosophy
      • Core Seminars
        • Currently Offered
          • HUMS 224, Modernities: Hobbes and Galileo
          • HUMS 267, Interpretations: Moby-Dick
          • HUMS 297, Modernities: Modern Liberty
          • HUMS 355, Interpretations: Baudelaire
          • HUMS 420, Modernities: The Waste Land
        • Interpretations Seminars
          • HUMS 206, The Arabian Nights
          • HUMS 212, Interpretations - Plato
          • HUMS 223, Interpretations - Claude McKay
          • HUMS 319, John Ashbery's Poetry
          • HUMS 346, Nietzsche's Zarathustra
          • HUMS 356 - Interpretations: Emily Dickinson
          • HUMS 366, Interpretations - Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables"
          • HUMS 378, Interpretations: Sainte-Chapelle
          • HUMS 401, The Dream of the Red Chamber
          • HUMS 403, Shakespeare’s Tempest
          • HUMS 405, The Parthenon
          • HUMS 407, Mann’s Doctor Faustus
          • HUMS 409, Interpretations - Remembrance of Things Past
          • HUMS 413, Montaigne's Essays
          • HUMS 415, Chartres Cathedral
        • Modernities Seminars
          • HUMS 192, Modernities - Intellectuals and Power in Europe
          • HUMS 199, Modernities - American Romanticism: Emerson to Ashbery
          • HUMS 237, Modernities - Past and present in fiction since 1789
          • HUMS 244, Modernities - Love, Marriage, Family: A Psychological Study through the Arts
          • HUMS 246, Modernities - Early Modern Media
          • HUMS 288, Modernity and the Crisis of Value
          • HUMS 290, The Modern Novel in Brazil and Japan
          • HUMS 313, Philosophy of Dissent in Central and Eastern Europe
          • HUMS 349, Identity in Modern Thought
          • HUMS 352, American Imagination From the Gilded Age to the Cold War
          • HUMS 355, The Politics of Emotion and Sensibility
          • HUMS 363, Modernities - Machiavelli and Machiavellianism
          • HUMS 369, Modernities: Maimonides and Postmodernism
          • HUMS 404, Literature in the Era of Tyrannies 1919-1960
          • HUMS 410, Nineteenth-Century Historical Narratives
      • Franke|Shulman Seminars
        • Currently Offered
          • Franke Seminar: Mass Incarceration in the Soviet Union and the United States
          • Shulman Seminar: Metaphysics Meets Cognitive Science
        • Archive
      • Special Admissions
        • HUMS 411, Life Worth Living
    • Alumni, Careers and Futures
      • Alumni Profiles
        • C. Wallace DeWitt ’03
        • Christopher Angel ’93
        • Daria Martin ’95
        • Jason Weinberger ’96, MusM ’97
        • Josh Spanogle ’93
        • Margaret Litvin ’95
        • Matthew Shaffer '10
        • Sasha Grutman ’89
        • Virginia Waldrop '12
      • For Alumni
      • Fall Festival of Seminars
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John Rogers

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Professor of English

Ph.D., Yale University, 1989
M.A., Yale University, 1985
B.A., Yale University, 1984

 

Selected Publications

“Ruin the Sacred Truths - Prophecy, Form, and Nonconformity in Marvell and Milton”

“Newton’s Arian Epistemology and the Cosmogony of Paradise Lost”

“Paradise Lost and the Creation of Mormon Theology”

“Parley Pratt, the Broken Planet of Paradise Lost, and the Creation of Mormon Theology”

“Orson Pratt, Parley Pratt, and the Miltonic Origins of Mormon Materialism”

“Relation Regained - Introduction to collection of essays on Paradise Regained”

Courses

Undergraduate: Milton

Graduate: Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Literature

Books

The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton

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