To Repair the Ruins: Reading Milton

About the Contributors

423 About the Contributors Joan Blythe is professor emeritus of the University of Kentucky. She has published on medieval penitential handbooks, Piers Plowman, Spenser, Milton, J. M. W. Turner, Byron, and D. H. Lawrence. Since taking early retirement, she has written articles on Milton and Byron, Milton and Renaissance art (including garden history), and Milton and Chateaubriand. Following from her recent work on Byron and Jusepe de Ribera, she plans to pursue connections among Milton, Manso, and Ribera. Gardner Campbell is associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. He also serves as director of Professional Development and Innovative Initiatives in the Division of Learning Technologies . He is an award-winning teacher and has published essays on Milton (in Approaches to Teaching Milton’s Shorter Poetry and Prose, Milton’s Legacy, and Arenas of Conflict), Aemelia Lanyer (Renaissance Papers), film and filmmakers (Literature/ Film Quarterly and several reference works), and teaching and learning technologies (Change and EDUCAUSE Review). He blogs at www.gardnercampbell.net. Alison A. Chapman is associate professor of English at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. She teaches English Renaissance poetry, and her research interests focus on the intersection between the medieval and the early modern, with a particular focus on how medieval practices and assumptions continued to 424 About the Contributors resonate in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature. She has published articles in journals such as Renaissance Quarterly , SEL, Modern Philology, and Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and she has recently completed a book manuscript on the ways in which the medieval idea of the patron saint informed early modern ideas of patronage. 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 in several 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, and her current research projects involve Milton and ecocriticism, and Milton and the emotions. Wendy Furman-Adams is professor of English and former coordinator of gender and women’s studies at Whittier College . She is coeditor of Renaissance Rereadings: Intertext and Context and Milton Studies, volume 28 (1992), Riven Unities: Authority and Experience, Self and Other in Milton’s Poetry. Her publications, many written collaboratively with Virginia Tufte, have dealt mainly with Paradise Lost as an illustrated poem, and have appeared in Philological Quarterly, Huntington Library Quarterly, Milton Quarterly, and Milton Studies, as well as in several critical anthologies, including Stephen Dobranski’s Milton in Context and the Milton Encyclopedia. Sarah Higinbotham is a doctoral fellow at Georgia State University . Her research interests are interdisciplinary among law, literature, and sociology, and she is the author of articles in Law, Culture, and the Humanities and The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America. She piloted the Georgia State Prison Initiative in 2008, teaching literature and writing courses to incarcerated felons. The program offers weekly classes at an Atlanta prison, sponsors visiting faculty lectures, and facilitates About the Contributors 425 a writing exchange between traditional Georgia State University undergraduates and prison students. She is completing her dissertation on the law’s violence in early modern texts. Giuseppina Iacono Lobo is assistant professor of English at Loyola University Maryland. She recently completed her doctorate at The Pennsylvania State University, and her teaching and research interests are in Milton, early modern women writers , and literature of the English revolution. She has forthcoming essays in English Literary Renaissance and Exemplaria, and she is currently working on a book project on conscience in the English revolution. John Leonard is professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. He has twice won the Milton Society of America’s James Holly Hanford Award: in 1990, for Most Distinguished Book, Naming in Paradise: Milton and the Language of Adam and Eve, and in 2000, for Most Distinguished Essay, “Milton, Lucretius, and ‘the void profound of unessential Night.’” He has edited Milton’s Complete Poems for Penguin Classics. His most recent book, is a reception history of Paradise Lost entitled Faithful Labourers. Vanita Neelakanta is assistant professor of English at Rider University . She wrote her dissertation at Brandeis University on the theatrum mundi trope and its influence on Milton’s poetry. She has published...