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Professor Evans joined the Stanford English Department in 1963 after earning his BA, MA, and PhD at Oxford University. His first post in this country was as an Assistant Professor of English in the Stanford English Department, and he has been on the faculty there ever since. From 1977-81 he served as Associate Dean of Humanities and Sciences, and from 1988-91 as Chairman of the English Department. Professor Evans's scholarly specialty is the literature of the Renaissance in general and the poetry of John Milton in particular. His publications in this area include: Paradise Lost and the Genesis Tradition (Oxford, 1968), Paradise Lost IX-X (Cambridge, 1973), The Road from Horton (Victoria, 1983), Milton's Imperial Epic (Cornell, 1996) and The Miltonic Moment (Kentucky, 1998), which was recognized as the "outstanding academic book of 1998" by Choice magazine. Professor Evans also has an active interest in travel literature, an interest which he tapped in order to write America, the View from Europe (Stanford, 1976) for the Portable Stanford series. In addition to his courses on Milton and Renaissance literature, Professor Evans teaches regularly in the Introduction to the Humanities, Master of Liberal Arts, and Introductory Seminar programs. During the course of his career at Stanford Professor Evans has received numerous teaching awards (the Gores award, the Bing award, the Dean's award), and in 1990 he was honored with the Richard Lyman Award for distinguished service to the University and the Alumni Association |