Visionary Milton: Essays on Prophecy and Violence

About the Contributors

333 About the Contributors Sharon Achinstein is Reader in Renaissance English Literature at Oxford University and Fellow of St. Edmund Hall. She is the author of Milton and the Revolutionary Reader, which received the James Holly Hanford Award, and coeditor of Milton and Toleration, which received the Irene Samuel Award. Her edition of Milton’s divorce tracts is forthcoming. Diana Treviño Benet is professor of English at the University of North Texas. She is the author of Secretary of Praise, Something to Love, and articles on Milton in Milton Studies and Modern Philology. Literary Milton: Text, Pretext, Context, which she coedited, received the Irene Samuel Award. She was president of the Milton Society in 1996. Michael Bryson is assistant professor of English at California State University at Northridge. He is the author of The Tyranny of Heaven and various articles on Milton in Milton Quarterly and Milton Studies. Stanley Fish is Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law at Florida International University. He is the author of Surprised by Sin, which received the James Holly Hanford Award, and How Milton Works. His most recent book is Save the World on Your Own Time. He was president of the Milton Society in 1980 and its Honored Scholar in 1991. Wendy Furman-Adams is professor of English at Whittier College. She is coeditor of Renaissance Rereadings and Riven Unities and the author of articles on Milton in the Huntington Library Quarterly, Milton Studies, and Philological Quarterly. 334 About the Contributors Barbara K. Lewalski is the William R. Kennan Jr. Professor of English Literature and History at Harvard. She is author of Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms and The Life of John Milton, both of which received the James Holly Hanford Award. She was president of the Milton Society in 1970 and its Honored Scholar in 1977. David Loewenstein is Marjorie and Lorin Tiefenthaler Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Milton and the Drama of History: Historical Vision, Iconoclasm, and the Literary Imagination and Representing Revolution in Milton and His Contemporaries, both of which received the James Holly Hanford Award. He is coeditor of the forthcoming Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley. He was president of the Milton Society in 1994 and its Honored Scholar in 2006. Peter E. Medine is professor of English at the University of Arizona. He has held research fellowships at the Huntington Library and the Folger Shakespeare Library and has directed six summer institutes on Shakespeare and Milton, which were funded by the NEH. He is author, editor, or coeditor of six books, the most recent of which is Roger Ascham’s Toxophilus. Stella P. Revard is professor of English emerita at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. She is the author of The War in Heaven and Milton and the Tangles of Neaera’s Hair, both of which received the James Holly Hanford Award. Her edition of The Shorter Poems of John Milton appeared in 2009. She was president of the Milton Society in 1984 and its Honored Scholar in 1997. Mary Beth Rose is professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is author of various studies and editions of early modern literature. Her study Gender the Heroism appeared in 2002. Her coedited work, Elizabeth I: Collected Works appeared in 2002 and received the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Award of the American Publishers. She has been an ACLS, Folger, and NEH Fellow. John T. Shawcross is professor of English emeritus at the University of Kentucky. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of over 30 studies of Milton and Renaissance authors. Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624–1700 and John Milton: The Self and the World both received the James Holly Hanford Award. His most recent book is The Development of Milton’s Thought. He was president of the Milton Society 1974 and its Honored Scholar in 1981. The Society inaugurated the John T. Shawcross Award in 2006. About the Contributors 335 Virginia James Tufte is distinguished emerita professor of English at the University of Southern California. Author of several books on early modern authors and topics, she has published extensively on Milton and the visual arts. Her book Artful Sentences appeared in 2006. David V. Urban is assistant professor of English at Calvin College. He is the author of numerous articles on Milton, and his updated edition...