This award recognizes a distinguished scholarly article that examines the afterlife of Milton or his works. By “afterlife,” the MSA means Milton’s influence on subsequent writers, artists, and thinkers; transnational reception; rewritings; etc.

Inaugural recipients

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).

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).