Past Seminars
The Beginning of Now: John Milton in the Early Modern Social Network
“How human life began”: Sexual Reproduction in Book 8 of Paradise Lost
Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth College
Milton and Galileo Revisited
Dennis Danielson, University of British Columbia
Satanic Ethos in Paradise Lost
Judith Anderson, Indiana University
A (Belated) Celebration of Milton’s 400th Birthday
John Milton’s Life
Stephen Fallon, University of Notre Dame
Murmur and Reply
Tobias Gregory, Catholic University of America
“Not but by the Spirit understood”: Milton’s Plain Style and Present-day Messianism
Feisal Mohamed, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ulysses and the Devils: The Imaginative Organization of Book 2 of Paradise Lost
David Quint, Yale University
Samson’s Late Call: Talents, Laborers, and Parabolic Tension in Milton’s Samson Agonistes
David Urban, Calvin College
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Juan Milton, El Inglés
Angelica Duran, Purdue University
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Milton’s Hair
Stephen Dobranski, Georgia State University
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Milton and the Book of Job in Paradise Regained
Victoria Kahn, University of California, Berkeley
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John Milton, Playwright: The Performance of a Maske in 1634
Ann Coiro, Rutgers University
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Sacramental Poetics, Redemption, and Paradise Regained
Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University
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The Negation of “God”: Samson Agonistes and Negative Theology
Michael Bryson, California State University, Northridge
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Why This is Chaos, Nor Am I Out of It
Gordon Teskey, Harvard University
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The Question of Milton’s Nationalism
Paul Stevens, Queens University, Canada
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Milton, Dreaming, and the Authority of Experience
Jennifer Lewin, University of Kentucky
(now at Boston University)
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The Genders of God and the Redemption of the Flesh in Paradise Lost
Marshall Grossman, University of Maryland
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Milton and Enthusiasm: Radical Religion and the Poetics of Paradise Regained
Jeffrey Shoulson, University of Miami
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Milton and the Index
Nigel Smith, Princeton University
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Solitary Milton
Douglas Trevor, University of Iowa
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The War in Heaven and the Miltonic Sublime
Nicholas Von Maltzahn, University of Ottawa
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No Eve Soothed My Sorrows: Domesticity and Monstrous Desire from Paradise Lost to Bride of Frankenstein
Laura Lunger Knoppers, Pennsylvania State University
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Milton’s Circumcision
John Rogers, Yale University
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“On other surety None”: Cultivating Your Garden in Paradise Lost
Stanley Fish, University of Illinois at Chicago
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The Masquing of Genre in Comus, or What’s a Nice Boy Like You Doing in a Topos Like This?
Heather Dubrow, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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The Birth of the Author: Milton’s Poetic Self-Construction
J. Martin Evans, Stanford University
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Thus They Relate, Erring: Milton’s Inaccurate Allusions
John Leonard, University of Western Ontario
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Two Kings and a Lady: Milton and the Irish Protestants
Sara van den Berg, University of Washington
(now at Saint Louis University)
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Milton’s Post-Modernity: Community after the Commonwealth
Linda Gregerson, University of Michigan
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Milton and the Tyranny of the Ethical
Richard Strier, University of Chicago
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“Where more is meant than meets the ear”: Milton’s Early Experiments in Allegory
Victoria Silver, University of California, Irvine
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The Natural and Politic Bodies: Milton and Seventeenth-Century Environmental Poetics
Diane McColley, Rutgers University (now emerita)
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John Milton and Commercial Society: The Making of a Republican Conservative
Steven Pincus, University of Chicago
(now at Yale University)
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Milton and Politics Again
Annabel Patterson, Yale University (now emerita)
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A Wood in the Desert, Paradise Regained: The Shifting Boundaries of Geographical Knowledge and the Virtues of the New Ignorance
Michael Murrin, University of Chicago
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Milton’s “Peculiar Grace”
Stephen Fallon, University of Notre Dame
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Ecclesiastical Satire in Milton’s Poetry
John King, Ohio State University
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Idolatry and the Reconfiguration of Worship
Achsah Guibbory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Eve, Paradise, and the “Field of This World”
Jason Rosenblatt, Georgetown University
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How Republican Is Paradise Lost?
David Norbrook, Magdalene College, University of Oxford (now emeritus)
Anachronism in Lycidas
Christopher Kendrick, Loyola University Chicago
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Paradise Lost and the Parliament of Hell: Allegory and Anti-Allegory in the English Revolution
Sharon Achinstein, Northwestern University
Hercules in Motion
Stella Revard, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (now emerita)
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Paradise Lost as a Re-beginning of Narrative
James Nohrnberg, University of Virginia
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Publishing Milton
Peter Lindenbaum, Indiana University
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“Tendentious Purposes”: Milton and Freud on Moses
Mary Ann Radzinowicz, Cornell University
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Milton’s Eve and the Cult of Elizabeth I
Albert C. Labriola, Duquesne University
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Milton’s Poems (1645) and the Proper Subject of Poetry
Michael Wilding, University of Sydney
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Rending the Body: Milton and Violence
Michael Lieb, University of Illinois at Chicago
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The Conduct of Desire in Paradise Lost
Michael Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan
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Milton: Divine Revelation and the Poetics of Experience
Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Harvard University (now emerita)
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The Complicity of Imagination: Revisionary Resjponses to Milton in Nineteenth-Century America
Robin Grey, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Gender and Confusion in Milton and Everyone Else
William Kerrigan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (now emeritus)
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“Inspir’d with contradiction”: Mapping Gender Discourses in Paradise Lost
Joseph Anthony Wittreich, Jr., The Graduate Center, CUNY
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“So thirsty after Fame”: Milton in 1649
Thomas Corns, Bangor University
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Milton’s Revisionary Epic
Mario Di Cesare, State University of New York at Binghamton (now emeritus)
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Through the Optic Glass: Milton and Voyeurism
Regina Schwartz, Duke University
(now at Northwestern University)
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Bringing the House Down: Spectacle and Evidence in Samson Agonistes
Stanley Fish, Duke University
(now University of Illinois at Chicago
Some Matters of Ethos and Audience in the Poetry of John Milton
Cedric Brown, University of Reading
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The Sin of the Tongue
Joan Blythe, University of Kentucky (now emerita)
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Embodying Glory: The Apocalyptic Strain in Milton’s Of Reformation
Janel Mueller, University of Chicago (now emerita)
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Uninventing Milton
John Rumrich, University of Texas at Austin
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Iconoclasm and History: From Eikonoklastes to Samson Agonistes
David Loewenstein, Loyola University Chicago
(now at University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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The Poetics of Masculinity: From the Divorce Tracts to Paradise Lost
James Grantham Turner, University of Michigan
(now at University of California, Berkeley)
Milton and Hobbes: Sacred War as Philosophical Battle
Stephen Fallon, University of Notre Dame
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Interferences of the Self: Mother Fixation and Milton’s Life and Work
John Shawcross, University of Kentucky
Sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago Institute for the Humanities and organized by Michael Lieb, University of Illinois at Chicago
Friday, April 22, at the University of Illinois at Chicago
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Robert Remini, UIC Institute for the Humanities
Richard Brown, The Newberry Library