DANIELLE A. ST. HILAIRE
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Office: College Hall 632B
Telephone: 412.396.6435
Email: sthilaired@duq.edu
Office Hours Spring 2012:
Monday/Wednesday 1:30-3:00 pm
EDUCATION
B.A., Brandeis University
MA, Cornell University
Ph.D., Cornell University
Dr. St. Hilaire’s main area of focus is British Renaissance poetry. She is particularly interested in the works of John Milton, and even more specifically in Paradise Lost. Most of her current work focuses on how 17th century religious poetry works to redeem fallen individuality. Her most recent project, Satan’s Poetry: Fallen Art and Its Tradition in Paradise Lost, pursues this question by examining how Paradise Lost situates itself as a participant in the fallen world in order to develop an understanding of community—both of people and of poems—that rescues the worth of the individuals within it.
Dr. St. Hilaire additionally has interests in epic poetry, Shakespeare, and literary tradition, and is developing a new curiosity in ethics and early modern subjectivity.
In addition to her scholarly pursuits, Dr. St. Hilaire is also embarrassingly obsessed with hockey, and is sure that she could be world-famous if she could just find the time to write a book on the epistemology of the face-off. (Go Pens!)
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Satan's Poetry: Fallen Art and Its Tradition in Paradise Lost (under review)
"Allusion and Sacrifice in Titus Andronicus," SEL 49.2 (Spring 2009): 311-331.
"The Satanic Question and the Poetics of Creation," in John Milton: "Reasoning Words." Ed. Kristin A. Pruitt and Charles W. Durham (Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 2008), 88-114.
