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MSA Awards for Books, Edited Collections, Chapters, and Articles Published in 2024
Nominations for all Milton Society of America awards have been extended to June 1, 2025.
For descriptions of all awards and full submission guidelines, please go to the Awards page on the MSA website. Please email nominations (and self-nominations) to MSA Secretary, Marissa Greenberg, at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com. She will also coordinate delivery of physical books and PDFs to the Awards Committee.
MSA Annual Meeting and Dinner Program 2025
Forthcoming
Congratulations to the MSA Honored Scholar 2024
Sharon Achinstein
Congratulations to the recipients of MSA Awards 2023, as announced in AY 2024-2025
Hanford Book Award
Winner—Thomas Vozar, Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford 2023).
Hanford Essay Award
Winner—Amanda Atkinson, “The Figura Serpentinata in Paradise Lost,” Studies in Philology 120:2 (Spring 2023): 340-70.
Irene Samuel Award
Winner—Islam Issa and Angelica Duran, eds., Milton Across Borders and Media (Oxford 2023).
Winner—Jim Holstun, “Black Abdiel and the Higher Law: James Monroe Whitfield vs. the Fillmore Faction,” ELH 90:1 (Spring 2023): 137-203.
John T. Shawcross Award
Winner—Kevin Killeen, “Miltonic Vertigo and a Theology of Disorientation,” The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable (Stanford 2023).
Albert Labriola Award
Winner—Katie Mennis, “Latinizing Milton in the English West Indies,” Milton Across Borders and Media (Oxford 2023), 71-89.
Honorable Mention—Aidan Selmer, “‘Through a Glass, Darkly’: Paradise Lost and Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians,” Milton Studies 65:2 (2023): 223-51.
The Milton Society of America aims to further Milton scholarship, not only in the U.S. but internationally, by bringing Milton scholars together at an annual dinner, by selecting outstanding scholars for honor, by publishing an annual booklet (and maintaining a website) honoring these scholars and summarizing the work of the Society, by gathering books, articles and other materials pertaining to Milton, by encouraging research in progress, and by promoting exchange of ideas in the field of Milton study (adapted from the Society’s Constitution).
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