I’m Lenhardt Stevens, an English teacher in Brooklyn and a PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham, where I write on Milton, virtue ethics, and moral psychology. I also serve as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. 

Here you’ll find my teaching philosophy and syllabi, my research, my CV, and my writing on literary humanism.

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Work is important, but join me and Milton when he says:

“In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoycing with Heaven and Earth.”

— Of Education (1644)