Stephen Pallas

Stephen Pallas is a doctoral candidate of English Literature at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on British Romanticism, with particular attention being drawn to the intersection of literary empathy, rhetoric and the history of political reform. He has written and presented widely on Percy Shelley, Walter Scott and Romantic ecocriticism. Stephen’s dissertation examines the ways literary empathy reflect shifting cultural attitudes towards slaves, prostitutes, prisoners and animals in the early decades of the nineteenth century.