2025 Honored Scholar

Edward Jones

Hanford Book Award

Lee Morrissey, Milton’s Ireland: Royalism, Republicanism, and the Question of Pluralism (Cambridge UP, 2024).

Hanford Article Award

Timothy M. Harrison. “‘Every Living Thing’: Life and Endeavor in Milton’s Paradise Lost.”Representations 167, no. 1 (2024): 33-63.

and

James Grantham Turner. “Milton, Lucretius, and the ‘Womb of Nature.’” Milton Studies 66, no. 1 (2024): 1-41.

Irene Samuel Award

Milton’s Moving Bodies, ed. Marissa Greenberg and Rachel Trubowitz (Northwestern UP, 2024).

Isocrates Award

Milton’s Cottage,Miltonathon, shared reading (8 November 2024) and YouTube videos, https://www.miltonscottage.org/miltonathon/.

Barbara Lewalski Award

Ryan Hackenbracht. “Shapes of Things to Come: Milton, Evolution, and the Afterlife of Species in Tennyson’s In Memoriam, A. H. H.” In Milton’s Moving Bodies, ed. Marissa Greenberg and Rachel Trubowitz, 181-211 (Northwestern UP, 2024).

and

Amelia Worsley. “Singing to Echo: John Milton’s Lady in A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634.” In Singing by Herself: Lonely Poets in the Long Eighteenth Century, 29-59 (Cornell UP, 2024).

John Shawcross Award

Colby Gordon, “Trans Mayhem in Samson Agonistes.” In Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature, 130-65 (U of Chicago P, 2024).

and

Nicolas Barker. “Milton’s Library: The Books He Read and Owned.” Milton Quarterly 58 (2024): 86-96.

Labriola Award

Diana Little. “‘Bitter Memory’ Meets ‘Dark Retrospect’: Charlotte Smith, Satan, and the Politics of Nostalgia in The Emigrants.” Women’s Writing: The Elizabethan to Victorian Period 31, no. 4 (2024): 517–35.

• “And All the Faded Roses Shed”: Reimagining Miltonic Paradise in F. W. Murnau’s Tabu (1931)
  Sarah Baber, University of Notre Dame
• Night and Day
  Maggie Kilgour, McGill University
• Unsung Oral Formulae in the Literary Epic: The Example of Paradise Lost
  James Carson Nohrnberg, University of Virginia
• “Exquisite reasons and theorems almost mathematically demonstrative”: Divine Wisdom and Mathematics in Areopagitica
  Rachel Trubowitz, University of New Hampshire

• Paradoxical Pages: Canonizing and Disrupting Milton in Thomas Warton’s 1785 Poems Upon Several Occasions
  Ms. Mollie Bowman, Penn State University
• The Binding of the Strong and the American Divorce Debate on Milton’s Tercentenary
  Mr. Mark-Elliot Finley, University of South Florida
• Milton’s Realism
  Matthew William Rickard, University of Notre Dame
• Diasporic Feminism and Milton’s Eve: Chimamanda Adiche’s “Tomorrow Is Too Far”
  Sebastián Andrés Grandas, Yale University

• Areopagitica from Milton’s Day to Mill’s
  Dr. Randy Robertson, Susquehanna University
• The Positive Liberty Problem in John Milton’s Areopagitica
  Dr. Jeffrey S. Gore, University of Illinois Chicago
• Modernizing Milton: The Letter and Spirit of Areopagitica
  Stephen B. Dobranski, Georgia State University
• “How books demean themselves”: Milton’s Bibliographical Imagination
  Alice Wickenden, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge

• Keep Milton Weird: Fun as Resistance in Milton Pedagogy
  Emily Griffiths Jones, University of South Florida
• Milton’s Humorlessness and the Hyper-Ironic Age: Reconsidering Areopagitica
  Mr. Lenhardt Stevens, The University of Birmingham
• Response by Ari Friedlander, University of Mississippi