Eric Song

Eric Song is a Professor in the Department of English Literature at Swarthmore College, where he joined the faculty in 2009. His affiliations include English Literature and Interpretation Theory. He teaches courses on Shakespeare, Milton, and the history of Narcissus and narcissism.

His research focuses on early modern English literature, with a particular emphasis on Shakespeare and Milton studies, interpretation theory, cultural memory, and the history of knowledge. He has authored two books: Love against Substitution: Seventeenth-Century Literature and the Meaning of Marriage (Stanford University Press, 2022) and Dominion Undeserved: Milton and the Perils of Creation (Cornell University Press, 2013). He is currently developing a new book project titled Necessary Evil: Bitumen, Early Modernity, and the Circulation of Historical Knowledge.