Past Milton Seminars

 May 16, 2009
"‘Not But by the Spirit Understood': Milton's Plain Style and Present-Day Messianism"  Feisal Mohamed, University of Illinoi–Urbana-Champaign
 November 8, 2008
"Ulysses and the Devils: The Imaginative Organization of Book 2 of Paradise Lost"  David Quint, Yale University
May 10, 2008
"Samson’s Late Call: Talents, Laborers, and Parabolic Tension in Milton’s Samson Agonistes"
David Urban,Calvin College
October 20, 2007 "Juan Milton, El Inglés" Angelica Duran,Purdue University
May 12, 2007 Milton's Hair Stephen Dobranski,Georgia State University
October 14, 2006 Milton and the Book of Job in 'Paradise Regained' Victoria Kahn, University of California- Berkeley
May 13, 2006 John Milton, Playwright: The Performance of a Maske in 1634 Ann Coiro, Rutgers University
November 12, 2005 Sacramental Poetics, Redemption, and Paradise Regained Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University
February 19, 2005 Why this is Chaos, nor am I out of it Gordon Teskey, Harvard University
May 14, 2005 The Negation of "God": Samson Agonistes and Negative Theology Michael Bryson, California State University, Northridge
May 15, 2004 The Question of Milton's Nationalism Paul Stevens, Queens University, Canada
October 11, 2003 Milton, Dreaming, and the Authority of Experience Jennifer Lewin, University of Kentucky
May 10, 2003 The Genders of God and the Redemption of the Flesh in Paradise Lost Marshall Grossman, University of Maryland
October 5, 2002 Milton and Enthusiasm: Radical Religion and the Poetics of Paradise Regained Jeffrey Shoulson, University of Miami
May 11, 2002 Milton and the Index Nigel Smith, Princeton University
September 29, 2001 Solitary Milton Douglas Trevor, University of Iowa
May 12, 2001 The War in Heaven and the Miltonic Sublime Nicholas Von Maltzahn, University of Ottawa
October 7, 2000 No Eve Soothed My Sorrows: Domesticity and Monstrous Desire from Paradise Lost to Bride of Frankenstein Laura Lunger Knoppers, Pennsylvania StateUniversity
May 13, 2000 Milton’s Circumcision John Rogers, Yale University
February 19, 2000 ‘On other surety none’: Cultivating Your Garden in Paradise Lost Stanley Fish, University of Illinois at Chicago
October 16, 1999 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
May 8, 1999 The Birth of the Author: Milton's Poetic Self–Construction J. Martin Evans, Stanford University
February 27, 1999 ‘Thus They Relate, Erring’: Milton's Inaccurate Allusions John Leonard, University of Western Ontario
October 10, 1998 Two Kings and a Lady: Milton and the Irish Protestants, 1637–1649 Sara van den Berg, University of Washington
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