Stephan Flores
My Courses
  • English 456/540: Desire for Exchange in Restoration and 18th-Century Literature
  • English 345: Shakespeare
  • English 422: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel
  • English 404/504: Contemporary British Fiction
  • English 421/540: Development of the English Novel (Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Austen)
  • English 210: Introduction to Literary Theory
  • English 404/504: Courtship, Wit, and Constraint in the English Novel, 1778-1816
  • English 495/504: 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
Office: UI Commons 315 (University Honors Program)
Phone: (208) 885-6147
Email: sflores@uidaho.edu
Mailing Address:
English Department - University of Idaho
P.O. Box 441102
Moscow, Idaho 83844-1102

Honors Program
Stephan Flores Course Web Pages
  • 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 the 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. He is the faculty representative for the Rhodes and Marshall scholarships. Among other committee work, he has served on the University Committee for General Education, as chair of the Student Financial Aid Committee, as president of the Alpha of Idaho chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and as chair of the Juntura Committee.


RECENT 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 & 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 (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.