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Tom Clayton is a scholar of the literature and culture of early modernity. He teaches literature from classical antiquity to the eighteenth century, offering courses on Milton, the Restoration, poetry and poetics, race and empire, and the long histories of British literature and culture. His research focuses on post-Reformation literature and political philosophy in England and the transatlantic world. A book manuscript in development called The Reformation of Indifference shows how religious toleration emerged from critical and imaginative responses to a Protestant concept of indifference. A second project is a study of letters, literary labor, and the delivery of the mail, set against the drive to formalize a national postal service in the seventeenth century. Aspects of this work have been published or are forthcoming in Representations, the Journal of Early Modern Studies, and elsewhere.