Steven W. May is an American academic and author specializing in English Renaissance poetry.
He obtained his B.A. at Rockford College and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He served as professor of English at Northern Illinois University, and then at Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky, for 35 years, where he received the Cawthorne "Excellence in Teaching" Award in 1991. He retired from full-time teaching in 2004 and currently is a senior research fellow and the principal investigator on the "Early Modern Manuscript Poetry: Recovering our Scribal Heritage" project at the University of Sheffield.
Steven W. May, Georgetown College Faculty Page
Professor Steve May, University of Sheffield Faculty Page