Steven Zwicker

Steven Nathan Zwicker (born June 4, 1943) is an American literary scholar and Professor Emeritus of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Zwicker was previously the Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities in Arts and Sciences.

Biography Zwicker is an expert on Restoration-era English literature and politics and is the author of Dryden's Political Poetry: The Typology of King and Nation (1972), Politics and Language in Dryden's Poetry: The Arts of Disguise (1984), and Lines of Authority: Politics and English Literary Culture, 1649-1689 (1993). He has edited six volumes and published more than two dozen essays in journals and volumes in the United States and abroad.

Zwicker was born in San Diego, California. He received his BA from the University of California, Los Angeles (1965) and his MA (1966) and PhD (1969) from Brown University. He was a Woodrow Wilson Scholar at Brown University when he earned his PhD. He has taught as a member of the Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis English faculty since 1969.