My Courses
- English 456/540: Desire for Exchange in Restoration and 18th-Century Literature
- English 345: Shakespeare
- English 475: Studies in Literary Genres, 18th-19th c. Novel
- English 404/504: Contemporary British Fiction
- English 421/540: Development of the English Novel (Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Austen)
- English 310: Literary Theory
- English 404/504: Courtship, Wit, and Constraint in the English Novel, 1778-1816
- English 511: Contemporary Critical Theory and Practice
Stephan Flores
College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences
Department of English
Associate Professor, Director of University Honors Program
With UI Since 1987
- Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of Michigan, 1988 (Emphases: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Critical Theory, Women Writers, Composition, Modern and Contemporary Drama, History of the Novel.)
- M.A., English Literature, University of Michigan, 1981
- B.A., English, University of Oregon 1979
Stephan Flores specializes in British literature, 1660-1815. His scholarly and teaching interests include drama, the novel, critical theory, and a wide range of topics and courses taught. His published research focuses on the cultural analysis of drama; his scholarship includes an edition of Orrery's Henry the Fifth (1664), included in
The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Drama. He advises freshmen English majors and selected graduate students, and serves on the department’s curriculum committee.
He has directed the University Honors Program since 1999; he was the program's associate director from 1994-1998. Dr. Flores's experience in honors education includes participation in a National Collegiate Honors Council Faculty Institute on Honors Assessment and Evaluation, workshops on major scholarships advising, and service as a presenter for an NCHC conference workshop session on "Internal and External Honors Program Review." Dr. Flores has an NCHC Site Visitor designation (members, approved by the NCHC Assessment & Evaluation Committee, who serve as consultants or external reviewers for honors programs and honors colleges), and has served as an external reviewer for an honors program and an honors college. He has served as a reviewer for the NCHC's national Portz Scholar essay competition. As past co-chair of the NCHC Gender and Ethnicities Committee, he helped to organize and serve as moderator for panel discussions on diversity issues in higher education. He was a member of the University of Idaho's Top Scholars Task Force, directed by the university president to explore models and best practices for exceptional students at universities across the country. He is faculty adviser for the Phi Eta Sigma honor society, chapter officer for (and past president of) the Alpha of Idaho chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, chapter liaison for Phi Kappa Phi, past chair of the university's Student Financial Aid Committee, past chair of the university's Juntura Committee, and he has served on the University Committee for General Education. He is the university's faculty representative for the Cambridge, Rhodes, and Marshall scholarships (at the University of Oregon, he was one of the university's two Rhodes nominees and a semi-finalist in the competition); he coordinates advising for other major and national fellowships.
Selected Publications
- Edition of Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery’s play Henry the Fifth (including scholarly introduction and notes, modernized spelling) in The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, (Broadview Press, 2001) pp. 2-37.
- "Orrery's The Generall and Henry the Fifth: Sexual Politics and the Desire for Friendship." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 37 (1996): 1-19.
- "'I am Arbaces, we all fellow subjects': The Political Appeal of Beaumont's and Fletcher's A King and No King on the Restoration Stage." Essays in Literature 20 (1993): 171-96.
- "Patriarchal Politics Under Cultural Stress: Nathaniel Lee's Passion Plays." Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research 8 (1993): 1-29.
- "Negotiating Cultural Prerogatives in Dryden's Secret Love and Sir Martin Mar-all." PLL: Papers on Language & Literature 29 (1993): 170-96.
- "Mastering the Self: The Ideological Incorporation of Desire in Lillo's The London Merchant." Essays in Theatre 5 (1987): 91-102. Reprinted in Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Volume 131 (LC-131), ed. Larry Trudeau, (Gale, 2007).
- “'I dare do all that may become a man': Passion, Politics, and Gender in Macbeth." Invited essay. Shakesperience Study Guide. Boise: Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 1991.
- "'That / question's out of my part': The Economy of Love, Words, and Gender in Twelfth Night." Invited essay. Shakesperience Study Guide. Boise: Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 1991.
Awards and Honors
- Invited scholar for the National Endowment for the Humanities British literature five-member panel to evaluate applications for Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars (2010, 2006, 2001, 2000)
- ASUI Outstanding Faculty Award (1994 and 2004)
- UI Alumni Service Award (1994)
- Alumni Award for Faculty Excellence (1992)
- Pi Beta Pi Commendation for Excellence as an Educator (1992)
- Related distinctions: Students in Dr. Flores’ 100 through 500 level classes have received English Department Banks Awards for best critical essay; in departmental surveys, seniors have cited his courses at every level as among "the most intellectually stimulating and challenging" they have taken at the university.