Alex Walton

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Assistant Professor, English
School of Humanities
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2025, English
University of California, Irvine

Research Interests
16th- and 17th-century British literature; Romanticism; poetry and poetics; marxism, capitalism, economic history; history of religion
Appointments
Harvard Society of Fellows, Junior Fellow, 2025–28
Publications
"Milton and Some Extemporaries." ELH 93, no. 2 (Summer 2026): 435-468.
https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2026.a993116 (open access)
“A Useless Pyramid: Figure and Surplus in William Petty’s Treatise of Taxes.” MLQ 86, no. 1 (Spring 2025): 31–57.
https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-11540310
Last updated
07/03/2026