Milton's Rival Hermeneutics: “Reason is But Choosing”

About the Contributors

265 About the Contributors RICHARD J. DUROCHER, who died in November 2010, was professor of English at St. Olaf College. He is the author of Milton and Ovid and Milton Among the Romans. He has published essays on Dante, Spenser, and Bradstreet as well as Milton. He received an NEH fellowship in 2007 to complete a study of Milton’s representation of the emotions. At the time of his death, DuRocher was a member of the editorial board for Milton Quarterly, a contributor to the Milton Variorum project, and editor for the Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies series at Duquesne University Press. MARY C. FENTON is professor of English at Western Carolina University. Her essays on Milton have been published in SEL, Milton Quarterly, Milton Studies, and as book chapters. She is the author of Milton’s Places of Hope: Spiritual and Political Connections of Hope with Land, and coeditor with Louis Schwartz of Their Maker’s Image: New Essays on John Milton. She served as the 2011 president of the Milton Society of America. TERESA FEROLI is associate professor of English at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. She is the author of Political Speaking Justified: Women Prophets and the 266 About the Contributors English Revolution (2006) and editor of a multivolume facsimile edition of the tracts of Lady Eleanor Davies, forthcoming from Ashgate Press. WILLIAM FLESCH is professor of English at Brandeis University. He is the author of Comeuppance, Generosity and the Limits of Authority: Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton, and the Facts on File Companion to Nineteenth Century British Poetry. HUGH JENKINS is professor of English at Union College. Recent publications include “‘Quid nomine populi intelligi velimus’: Defining the People in Milton’s ‘Second Defense’“ (Milton Studies 46) and “Shrugging off the Norman Yoke: Milton’s History of Britain and the Levellers” (ELR). He is currently working on a study called Milton and the People. BARBARA K. LEWALSKI is William R. Kenan Jr. Research Professor of History and Literature and of English Literature at Harvard University. Recent books include The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography, an original language edition of Paradise Lost, and (forthcoming) an edition of Milton’s Shorter Poems (Volume 3) for the multivolume Oxford edition of Milton’s Complete Works. DIANE MCCOLLEY is professor emeritus at Rutgers University. Her books include Milton’s Eve, A Gust for Paradise, Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century England, and Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and Marvell. STELLA P. REVARD is professor emerita of English at Southern Illinois University. She is an Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America and past president of the International Association of Neo-Latin Studies. Recent books About the Contributors 267 include Pindar and the Renaissance Hymn-Ode: 1450–1700, Politics, Poetics, and the Pindaric Ode: 1450–1700, and an edition—Milton’s Shorter Poems, in original spelling and punctuation. MARGARET OLOFSON THICKSTUN is the Jane Watson Irwin Professor of English at Hamilton College. She is the author of Fictions of the Feminine: Puritan Doctrine and the Representation of Women and Milton’s “Paradise Lost”: Moral Education. GORDON TESKEY, professor of English at Harvard University, is author of Allegory and Violence and of Delirious Milton, which won the Milton Society of America’s James Holly Hanford Award. He is also the editor of the Norton Critical edition of Paradise Lost. JOSEPH WITTREICH is Distinguished Professor Emeritus from The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. His most recent books are Shifting Contexts: Reinterpreting “Samson Agonistes” and Why Milton Matters. SUSANNE WOODS is provost and professor of English emerita at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and has also taught at the University of Hawaii, Franklin & Marshall College, and for many years at Brown University where she founded the Women Writers Project. Her publications include Natural Emphasis: English Versification from Chaucer to Dryden and Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. ...