Stephen B. Dobranski is Distinguished University Professor of early modern literature and textual studies at Georgia State University.

He is the editor of the academic journal Milton Studies and the author of Milton’s Visual Imagination: Imagery in “Paradise Lost” (Cambridge University Press, 2015) as well as Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2005), which received the English Studies Award from the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. He also edited Milton in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and co-edited, with John Rumrich, Milton and Heresy (Cambridge University Press, 1998), both of which received the Irene Samuel Memorial Award from the Milton Society of America.

Dobranski’s other books include The Cambridge Introduction to Milton (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade (Cambridge University Press, 1999). In 2009, he also published A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton: “Samson Agonistes” (Duquesne/Penn State University Press), which received the John T. Shawcross Award for a distinguished reference work from the Milton Society of America.

The most recent book that he edited is Political Turmoil: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1623-1660 (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and he oversaw and served as general editor for the two other books in that series, Gathering Force: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557-1623, and Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660-1723.

Dobranski’s articles on early modern literature have appeared in various multi-authored collections as well as ELR, Milton Quarterly, Milton Studies, Modern Philology, PMLA, Religion and Literature, Review of English Studies, The Seventeenth Century, and Studies in English Literature. He has received a Pforzheimer Fellowship from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (2006), a Fellowship to the Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies (2010), and a Provost Faculty Fellowship from Georgia State University (2013).

He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and daughter.