MSA Newsletter – MSA at MLA, January 2025

Dear Milton Society,

A very happy new year to you.

This mini missive comes with a few final reminders about MSA at MLA.

MSA at MLA

The Milton Society of America is sponsoring two sessions at the upcoming Modern Language Association of America Convention in New Orleans, LA (9-12 January 2025).

Milton and Visibility (#389) – A Presidential Theme Session

Friday, 10 January 2025

5:15 PM – 6:30 PM

Hilton Riverside New Orleans – Salon 12 (1st Floor)

“The Paper Messenger,” Tom Clayton, Colgate U

“Seeing the Body’s Prison in Comus, Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes,” Frances Ringwood, U of Zululand

“‘The World Was All before Them’: The End of Paradise Lost in Nineteenth-Century Visual Art,” Joseph Torres, U of California, Los Angeles

John Milton: A General Session (#494)

Saturday, 11 January 2025

10:15 AM – 11:30 AM

Hilton Riverside New Orleans – Chart A (Riverside Complex)

“Milton, Marlowe, and Empire,” Su Fang Ng, Virginia Tech

“On Two Kinds of Blind Standing: Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained,” Amrita Dhar, UC San Diego

Also of possible interest to MSA members is the following panel organized by Carmen Nocentelli for the LLC 17th Century English Forum:

Early Modern Social Media (#718)

Sunday, 12 January 2025

10:15 AM-11:30 AM

Hilton Riverside New Orleans – Eglinton Winton

“To intimate intimacy: Margaret Cavendish’s Sociable Letters,” Emma K. Atwood, University of Montevallo

“Font of Enlightenment: Letterpress Type as Social Media”, Christopher Warren, Carnegie Mellon University

“Fortifications and Festivities: ‘Platforme’ Studies in Early Modern England,” Michael Menna, Stanford University

“Dark Humor: Misinformation, Ghostly Political Satire, and the Popish Plot,” Savannah Jensen, University of South Florida

 

MSA members and friends attending the MLA are warmly invited to an informal dinner on 10 January 2025 immediately following the Milton and Visibility session. Costs for graduate student members of the MSA will be covered by the MSA. There is still time to email MSA Secretary Marissa Greenberg at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com if you would like to join. We look forward to seeing you there.

Amrita Dhar, MSA President