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ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Michael Bryson is assistant professor of English at California State University, Northridge. He is the author of The Tyranny of Heaven: Milton’s Rejection of God as King (2004). He has also written on the dynamic relationship between sacrifice, death, and community formation in the Book of Judges (in Religion and Literature), and is currently at work on a new book on negative theology in Milton and Blake. Stephen B. Dobranski is professor of Renaissance literature and textual studies at Georgia State University. He is the author of Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England (2005) and Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade (1999). He also co-edited Milton and Heresy (1998) and most recently has completed A Variorum Commentary on John Milton’s “Samson Agonistes,” 1671–1970. Phillip J. Donnelly is assistant professor of literature in the Honors College at Baylor University, where he teaches in the Great Texts program and the English department. He is author of Rhetorical Faith: The Literary Hermeneutics of Stanley Fish. Richard J. DuRocher teaches English at St. Olaf College. He is the author of Milton and Ovid (1985) and Milton Among the Romans (2001). Currently he is working on a study of the emotions in Milton’s poetry. Achsah Guibbory is professor of English at Barnard College. Her most recent books are Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton (1998, 2006) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to John Donne (2006). She is completing “Imagined Identities: The Uses of Judaism in Seventeenth-Century England.” 277 278 About the Contributors Bryan Adams Hampton is assistant professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he also serves as coordinator for the humanities program. He has previously published in Milton Studies and has also written on the Leveller John Lilburne in The Age of Milton (2004). Laura Lunger Knoppers is professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University. She is author of Historicizing Milton: Spectacle, Power, and Poetry in Restoration England (1994) and Constructing Cromwell: Ceremony, Portrait, and Print, 1645–1661 (2000). She has edited Puritanism and Its Discontents (2003) and co-edited, with Joan Landes, Monstrous Bodies: Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe (2004) and, with Gregory Semenza, Milton in Popular Culture (2006). She is currently completing a scholarly edition of Milton’s 1671 poems. Michael Lieb is professor of English and research professor of humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has recently published Theological Milton: Deity, Discourse, and Heresy in the Miltonic Canon (2006) as well as Milton in the Age of Fish: Essays on Authorship, Text, and Terrorism, which he has co-edited with Albert C. Labriola. John T. Shawcross is professor emeritus at the University of Kentucky and the author of Rethinking Milton Studies: Time Present and Time Past (2005) and Milton’s Conceptual Development (forthcoming ). His compilation of the “Milton Bibliography, 1624–1799” is available on the Internet through Iter (2006). Joseph Wittreich is Distinguished Professor of English at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. His most recent books are Shifting Contexts: Reinterpreting “Samson Agonistes” and Why Milton Matters. ...

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