Feisal G. Mohamed is a scholar, critic, and essayist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times series "The Stone," in Dissent Magazine, the Chronicle Review, the Yale Review, The American Scholar, Huffington Post, Boston Review, and on the website of The New Republic. He is currently a professor of English at Yale University. Among his awards and recognitions are a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation, an Honorable Mention for the Modern Language Association's William Riley Parker Prize, and a James Holly Hanford Award for an outstanding book on poet John Milton. He holds a BSc in biology (1997) and MA in English (1999) from the University of Ottawa, a PhD in English (2003) from the University of Toronto, and an LLM (2012) from the University of Illinois College of Law.