Feisal Mohamed

Feisal Mohamed is a Professor of English at Yale University, specializing in 17th-century English literature, particularly John Milton. His work explores sovereignty, political theology, and colonialism. He holds an LLM from the University of Illinois (2012), a PhD from the University of Toronto (2003), and earlier degrees from the University of Ottawa (BSc 1997, MA 1999).

His research includes the book Sovereignty: Seventeenth-Century England and the Making of the Modern Political Imaginary (2020), critiquing Carl Schmitt and analyzing Hobbes, Milton, and Marvell. Current projects address colonial corporations, unfree labor, and a modern theory of tyrannicide. He has received awards such as the James Holly Hanford Award and Mellon Foundation Fellowship, supporting interdisciplinary legal training.

Editorial contributions include the Northwestern University Press series Rethinking the Early Modern and co-editing volumes on Milton and the humanities. His writing appears in venues like The New York Times and The Yale Review.

Grants and fellowships include Mellon Foundation support for legal studies. His advising and collaborative projects focus on early modern literature’s intersections with politics and religion.

Labs/teams involve editorial leadership in the Rethinking the Early Modern series, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue on early modern studies.