Steven Nathan Zwicker (born June 4, 1943) is an American literary scholar and Professor Emeritus of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Zwicker was previously the Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities in Arts and Sciences.
Zwicker is an expert on Restoration-era English literature and politics and is the author of Dryden's Political Poetry: The Typology of King and Nation (1972), Politics and Language in Dryden's Poetry: The Arts of Disguise (1984), and Lines of Authority: Politics and English Literary Culture, 1649-1689 (1993). He has edited six volumes and published more than two dozen essays in journals and volumes in the United States and abroad.
Zwicker was born in San Diego, California. He completed a BA the UCLA (1965), and an MA (1966) and PhD (1969) at Brown University. He was a Woodrow Wilson Scholar at Brown University. He has English faculty since 1969 at the Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
