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IMS13 2023

Harmonious Milton:

An Evening of Voice and Verse

Wednesday July 12, 7:30pm

Church of the Redeemer (CR), 162 Bloor Street West

Doors open at 7:00pm

Some of Toronto’s most gifted musicians and singers gather to perform music inspired by the poetry of Milton. Works include selections from Handel’s L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, ed Il Moderato, and his Samson; as well as pieces by John Milton, Sr. and Henry Lawes. The evening is capped by the performance of two recent 21st-century settings of Milton, by the Torontonian composers Robert Busiakiewicz and Stephanie Martin. Music curated by Larry Beckwith; dramatic text scripted by Seth Herbst and performed by Attendant Spirit R. H. Thomson. Free of charge for IMS13 attendees.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Registration

Conference attendees may pick up their badges, folders, and unique WiFi access codes at the registration and information desk in Victoria College (VC), 73 Queen’s Park Crescent East, which will be open every day from 9am to 4pm.

Opening Reception

Monday, July 10, 5:00 - 7:00

Charbonnel Lounge (CL), St. Michael’s College, 81 St. Mary St

First drink free for conference registrants.

Grad Student Pub Social

Tuesday, July 11, 5:30

Duke of York, 39 Prince Arthur Ave

First drink free for graduate student registrant s.

IMS13 Undergraduate Panels

Wednesday, July 12, 12:45 - 1:45 and Thursday, July 13, 12:45 - 1:45

Victoria University Common Room, Burwash Hall (VCR)

Ten-minute papers given by exceptional students from the University of Toronto and institutions around North America. Lunch will be served. Please see page 26 for details.

Exhibition and Discussion of Rare Books

Wednesday, July 12, 2:30 - 4:30 and Friday, July 14, 2:30 - 4:30

Maclean Hunter Room, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (RB), 120 St. George St

Explore Canada’s largest rare book library with a specially curated interactive exhibit that includes early printed editions of Milton’s works; early modern manuscripts from across the globe; annotated copies, translations, and adaptations of Milton’s works from the 17th century to the present; and rare book selections by some of the symposium’s plenary speakers. Curated by Misha Teramura.

Reception and Closing Banquet

Friday, July 14, Massey College (M), 4 Devonshire Place

5:00 - 6:30

6:30 - 9:00

Reception with cash bar - all are welcome

Closing banquet - advanced reservation required

PLENARIES AT A GLANCE

All plenary lectures will be held in the Isabel Bader Theatre (BT), 93 Charles Street W.

Monday, July 10, 11:30

FEISAL MOHAMED , Yale U

Lycidas and the Maritime Policy of Charles I

Tuesday, July 11, 11:30

DAVID QUINT , Yale U

Epic and Exodus

Wednesday, July 12, 11:30

LORNA HUTSON , U of Oxford

Neptune’s Sway: Bodies and Boundaries in the “Island Nation” Fiction, 1550 – 1700

Thursday, July 13, 11:30

A CHSAH GUIBBORY , Barnard College

From Milton’s Exceptionalism to America’s N ationalism: Milton’s Late Writings, The Conquest of Canaan (1785), and the Current Rise of Christian Nationalism

Thursday, July 13, 3:45

NICHOLAS MCDOWELL , U of Exeter

“Of True Virtue Void”: The Virtue Politics of John Milton

Friday, July 14, 11:30

SU FANG NG , Virginia Tech

Milton and Imperial Cartography

PANELS AT A GLANCE

1. Monday 1:45 - 3:15

Shakespearean Tragedy and Paradise Lost

Worlds, New Worlds, and Science Fiction

From Theology to Philosophy

Empire and Slavery in the Late Poems

Oppositional Rhetorics in Milton’s Prose

Milton among the Romantics

2. Monday 3:30 - 5:00

Roundtable: Milton and Critical Disability Studies

Adam, Eve, God: The Problem of Number in Paradise Lost

Words, Words, Words: Milton’s Language

All in All: The Son in Heaven, in Hell, and on Earth

Printing Milton in the Long Restoration

Literacy, Libraries, Education

3. Tuesday 9:30 - 11:00

Milton and Liberty

Milton in America: Race and Divinity

Cavendish and Milton

Uncertain Futures in Miltonic Epic

Milton’s Global Presence: Eastern Europe

Milton and Italian Poetry

4. Tuesday 1:45 - 3:15

Roundtable: Is Paradise Lost a Christian Poem?

Personifying God: Father, Son, Holy Spirit

Milton’s Blindness

Surface Readings of Paradise Lost

Systems and Schemes in Paradise Lost

Milton’s Global Presence: 18th- and 19th-Century Translations of Paradise Lost

Temptations in the Wilderness: Comus and Paradise Regained

PANELS AT A GLANCE

5. Tuesday 3:30 - 5:00

Roundtable: Publishing on Milton

Paradise Lost: From Ten to Twelve

All Ear: Auditory Milton

Postmodern Ecologies and Paradise Lost

Reason of State and Legal Positivism in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

Abuse, Aspersions, Animadversions

Scholarship and the University

6. Wednesday 9:30 - 11:00

Roundtable: Milton and Race

Milton’s Educational Writings: Problems, Solutions, Opportunities

Numbers, Eternity, and Now

Milton among the Victorians

Vision and Sight in Paradise Lost

The Theologies of Paradise Regained

7. Wednesday 1:45 - 3:45

Milton, Matter, Monism

Disability and Milton

The Literary Pasts in Paradise Lost

Milton’s Global Presence: East Asia

Social Theologies in Baxter and Milton

Heresy and Church Government

Queering Miltonic Divinity

8. Wednesday 4:00 - 5:30

Roundtable: Is Milton Good for the Jews? A Tribute to Ernest Sirluck

Nationalism, Exceptionalism, and the British Islands

Lycidas and the Lyric Collection

Rethinking the Regicide Treatises

Music and Milton

Defamiliarizing the Family in Paradise Lost

Some Versions of Atonement

PANELS AT A GLANCE

9. Thursday 9:30 - 11:00

Service, Servitude, Slavery

Milton and Islam

Roundtable: Milton and Chappell — Education, Homosociality, and Violence

Rethinking Typology in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

Women Writers and Milton

Rethinking Samson Agonistes

10. Thursday 1:45 - 3:15

Roundtable: Precarious Milton

Transforming the Classical Past

Milton’s Global Presence: 20th- and 21st-Century Receptions

Excavations: Milton and Property

Paradise Lost: Identity, Epistemology, and Cognition

Milton and Modernism

11. Friday 9:30 - 11:00

Milton: 1644

New Perspectives on Milton and Empire

Women’s Voices in Ovid and Milton

Paradise Lost and the Passions

Human and Divine in Paradise Lost

Milton’s Global Presence: South Asia

12. Friday 1:45 - 3:15

The Laws of Verse and the Testimony of Truth

Milton, Marriage, Divorce

Roundtable: Lostathon — On the Marathon Readings of Milton’s Epic

Milton’s Global Presence: Hispanophone and Lusophone America

Aftertimes: Engaging Milton in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Monday, July 10

REGISTRATION

9:00 - 11:00

Opening Remarks

11:15 - 11:30

Victoria College (VC)

ETHAN MATT KAVALER , Director, CRRS, Professor of Art History, U of Toronto

JOHN ROGERS , Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Early Modern Literature and Culture, U of Toronto

PLENARY LECTURE

11:30 - 12:45

FEISAL MOHAMED , Yale U

Isabel Bader Theatre (BT)

Lycidas and the Maritime Policy of Charles I

Chair: MARY NYQUIST, U of Toronto

12:45 - 1:45

1:45 - 3:15

PANEL SESSION 1

Shakespearean Tragedy and Paradise Lost

VC 215 VC 115

Chair: TOM BISHOP, U of Auckland

PAUL STEVENS , U of Toronto

Milton’s Hamlet: The Tragedy of Adam Unparadized

W. GARDNER CAMPBELL

Virginia Commonwealth U

“To whom the Tempter Guilefully Replied”: Othello, Echoes, and Doubt in Paradise Lost 9

SETH LOBIS , Claremont McKenna College

Shakespeare, Milton, and the “Manly Tune”

Worlds, New Worlds, and Science Fiction

Chair: MARGARET KEAN, Oxford U

SIM ONG, U of Toronto

“Dream not of other worlds”: Beholding and Possessing Worlds in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

LARA DODDS , Mississippi State U

Increase, But Don’t Eat: Divine Commands as Worldbuilding in Paradise Lost

Monday, July 10

Panel Session 1 (1:45 - 3:15)

From Theology to Philosophy

VC 101

Chair : RICHARD STRIER, U of Chicago

FERNANDO MARTINEZ-PERISET , Stanford U

Milton and Senecan Stoicism

JAMES NOHRNBERG, U of Virginia

Angelic Doctors: Satan and Abdiel as Rival Theologians in Paradise Lost

RUSS LEO , Princeton U

Milton, Spinoza, and the Challenge of the Quakers

Empire and Slavery in the Late Poems

VC 212

Chair : TOBIAS GREGORY

Catholic U of America

SYDNEE BROWN , U of Iowa

Paradise Regained and the “Peaceful” Empire of Glory

OLIVIA LEONARD, Arizona State U

Natural and Unnatural Slavery in Samson Agonistes: Milton’s Construction of an English Subject

NATHAN NIKOLIC, Graduate Center, CUNY

Grinding at the Mill: The Specter of Atlantic Slavery in Milton’s Samson Agonistes

Oppositional Rhetorics in Milton’s

Prose

VC 206

Chair : LYNNE MAGNUSSON , U of Toronto

JEAN DAVID EYNARD

Pembroke College, U of Cambridge

Parrhesia Redux: The Musical Rhetoric of Free Speech in Milton’s Polemical Tracts

BRANDON TAYLOR , U of Toronto

Milton, Incorporated: The New Model Army and the Revolutionary Energy of Early Modern Corporations

BENJAMIN WOODFORD , Thompson Rivers U

Liberty as Public Policy: Milton’s Writings as a Civil Servant

Milton among the Romantics

VC 211

Chair: STUART CURRAN

U of Pennsylvania

ISAIAS UGGETTI ERAZO

U of Southern California

“Nature is Imagination itself”: The Politics of Miltonic Inspiration in Fuseli and Blake

CHRIS KOENIG-WOODYARD

U of Toronto

Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, and Gothic Blots

Monday, July 10

3:15 - 3:30

COFFEE BREAK VC

3:30 - 5:00

PANEL SESSION 2

Roundtable: Milton and Critical Disability Studies

VC 101

Chair : PASQUALE TOSCANO , Princeton U

MAURA BRADY, Le Moyne College

AMRITA DHAR , Ohio State U

ANGELICA DURAN , Purdue U

TERI FICKLING, U of Texas, Austin

LYNNE GREENBERG , Hunter College, CUNY

ANDREW MCKENDRY, Nord U

Words, Words, Words:

Milton’s Language

VC 115

Chair : JOHN LEONARD , U of Western Onario

JOHN HALE , Otago U

Norms of Appreciation for Milton’s Latin Verse

ERIC BROWN

U of Maine, Farmington

Rereading Milton’s Acrostics

LYNNE MAGNUSSON , U of Toronto

The Agility of Small Words in Milton’s English: The Literary Affordances of Prepositions

Adam, Eve, God: The Problem of Number in Paradise Lost

VC 215

Chair : RACHEL TRUBOWITZ, U of New Hampshire

P ATRICK MCGRATH

Southern Illinois U, Carbondale

“A Nice and Subtle Happiness”: Finding Fault with Paradise

SAMUEL FALLON

State U of New York, Geneseo

Another Eve: Milton, Cavell, and the Problem of Plurality

STEPHEN DOBRANSKI

Georgia State U

The Case of Missing Persons in Paradise Lost

Monday, July 10 4

Panel Session 2 (3:30 - 5:00)

Printing Milton in the Long Restoration

VC 212

Chair : NICHOLAS VON MALTZAHN

U of Ottawa

CHRISTOPHER WARREN , Carnegie Mellon U

Whig Data: Milton’s Printers in the Restoration

JONATHAN KOCH, Pepperdine U

“For the Benefit of English Readers”: Collecting Milton’s Prose (1698)

MATHIEU BOUCHARD, McGill U

Mary Wellington and the Publication of Paradise Lost in 1719

Literacy, Libraries, Education

All in All: The Son in Heaven, in Hell, and on Earth

VC 206

Chair : DAVID AINSWORTH

U of Alabama

AIDAN SELMER , Rutgers U

“Through a Glass, Darkly”: Milton’s Poetics of Mystery

DAVID ADKINS, Northwest Nazarene U Christ’s Descent to the Dead in Paradise Lost and De Doctrina Christiana

BJÖRN QUIRING, Trintiy College, Dublin

The Ecstasy of Eternal Administration: The Conflation of Divine Judgment and Eternal Bliss in Paradise Lost and De Doctrina Christiana

VC 211

Chair : MARISSA GREENBERG , U of New Mexico

E MARIAH SPENCER , Illinois State U

John Milton and Margaret Cavendish

Compared: Two Divergent Views on Education

JEFFREY GORE, U of Illinois, Chicago

Milton in the Commons: Libraries, Literacy, and the Political Nation in the Likeliest Means

AMY STACKHOUSE, Iona U

Milton’s Aristotelian “Character Education”

Tuesday, July 11

4 1:45 - 3:15

PANEL

Roundtable: Is Paradise Lost a Christian Poem?

VC 213

Chair : RICHARD STRIER, U of Chicago

RUSS LEO , Princeton U

CATHERINE GIMELLI MARTIN , U of Memphis

BJÖRN QUIRING, Trinity College, Dublin

NIGEL SMITH, Princeton U

JOSEPH WITTREICH , Graduate Center, CUNY

Milton’s Blindness

VC 115

Chair : SARA VAN DEN BERG , Saint Louis U

JEFF ROHNER-TENSEE, York U

Escaping Eden: Milton’s Demonstration of Critical Disability Theory in Paradise Lost

MATTHEW MULLIN , U of Notre Dame

Milton’s Monstrous Self-Fashioning

AMRITA DHAR , Ohio State U

The Collaborative, Participatory, Amanuensistic Authorship of Milton’s Blind Poetic Language

Personifying God: Father, Son, Holy Spirit

VC 215

Chair : JEFFREY SHOULSON, Brandeis U

NOAM REISNER, Tel Aviv U

Rethinking Milton’s Pauline-Hebraic God

ANTOININA BEVAN ZLATAR

U of Zurich

Picturing the Son of God in Paradise Lost

HEATHER JAMES

U of Southern California

Milton’s God and the Problem of Personification

Surface Readings of Paradise Lost

VC 211

Chair : WENDY FURMAN-ADAMS

Whittier College

SHAUN ROSS, U of Toronto

“Where Strength Can Least Abide”: Hair and Disenchantment in Milton’s Imagination

BRAYDEN TATE, U of Alberta

Desiring Apocalypse, Desiring

Revolution: The Veil in Paradise Lost

Panel Session 4 (1:45 - 3:15)

Systems and Schemes in Paradise

Lost

VC 101

Chair : CHRISTOPHER WARREN

Carnegie Mellon U

MATTHEW TURNBULL, Baylor U

Augustinian Semiosis in Satan’s Soliloquies

JOHN LADD

Washington & Jefferson College

Milton’s Uncertain Data

JONATHAN OLSON, Grand Canyon U

Numerological Criticism and Milton’s Rejection of Number Symbolism

Milton’s Global Presence: 18thand 19th-Century

Translations of Paradise Lost

VC 212

Sponsored by the Department of Language Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga

Chair : KAREN WEISMAN, U of Toronto

IRENE MONTORI, U of Naples, Federico II

Paradise Lost in Italy: Vincenzo Monti

Rewriting Milton’s Creation Narrative

GUI NABAIS FREITAS

Trinity College, U of Cambridge

Portuguese Milton and his Enlightenment Paratexts: Jose Amaro da Silva’s Paraiso Perdido (1789) and Obras da Milton (1819)

LEONARD STEIN, Ben-Gurion U

Temptations in the Wilderness: Comus and Paradise Regained

VC 206

Chair : LAURA KNOPPERS, U of Notre Dame

PHILIP GOLDFARB STYRT, St. Ambrose U

Milton’s Combative Virtue: The Lady in A Maske

TESS GROGAN, Yale U

Literary Errancy in Paradise Regained

ANNABEL BARRY, U of California, Berkeley

“Eden raised in the waste wilderness”: The Temptation of Art in Paradise Regained

Rewriting that Peculiar Nation: Comparative Theology in the First Hebrew Translations of Paradise Lost

- 5:00

PANEL SESSION 5 3:30

Roundtable: Publishing on Milton VC 112

Chair : STEPHEN DOBRANSKI

Georgia State U

TIANHU HAO, Zhejiang U

EDWARD JONES , Oklahoma State U

LAURA KNOPPERS, U of Notre Dame

ELIZABETH SAUER, Brock U

Postmodern Ecologies and Paradise Lost

VC 101

Chair : STEPHEN M. BUHLER

U of Nebraska-Lincoln

AVERY SLATER, U of Toronto

“Into our room of / Creatures”: Erasing Milton

UNJOO OH, Stanford U

Posthuman, Material Informatics in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Christian

Bök’s The Xenotext Experiment

WENDY FURMAN-ADAMS

Whittier College

“The Fruit of that Forbidden Tree”: Contemporary Artists Reading Genesis and Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost: From Ten to Twelve

VC 215

Chair : ANTHONY WELCH

U of Tennessee, Knoxville

PHILLIP J. DONNELLY, Baylor U

Milton and Ficino: Rethinking Number in Paradise Lost

STEPHEN GUY-BRAY, U of British Columbia

Milton’s Transitions

CAITLIN HUBBARD , Yale U

“Show it in a play”: How Milton’s

Theatricality Inspired the Bold Empiricism of Dryden’s The State of Innocence

All Ear: Auditory Milton

Chair : AMRITA DHAR, Ohio State U

TESSIE PRAKAS, Scripps College

“Heard or learnt”: Milton’s Amateur Listeners

SAMUEL BOZOUKOV, Harvard U

VC 115

The Temptations of Milton’s Lady and Eve: Listening as Poetic Activity

JOHN LEONARD, U of Western Ontario

Reading Paradise Lost aloud

Tuesday, July 11 10

Panel Session 5 (3:30 - 5:00)

Reason of State and Legal

Positivism in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

VC 212

Abuse, Aspersions, Animadversions

VC 206

Chair : BROOKE CONTI , Cleveland State U

Chair : FEISAL MOHAMED, Yale U

NOEL CAPOZZALO

Graduate Center, CUNY

Reason of State and the Uses of Glory in Paradise Lost

BEN LABRECHE, U of Mary Washington Between Law and Nature: The Similes of Paradise Regained

Scholarship and the University

VC 211

Chair : TIMOTHY RAYLOR , Carleton College

TOMOS EVANS, U of Birmingham

New Contexts for Milton’s Letters to Lucas Holstenius and Leonard Philaras

ROBERT DULGARIAN, Emerson College

Why “Lycidas”? The Poem and the Cambridge Curriculum

YAACOV BRONSTEIN, Rutgers U

“The Common Gloss”: Multilingual Biblical Reading in Paradise Lost

EVAN LABUZETTA, Independent Scholar

Milton’s Stupidities

BRENDAN PRAWDZIK, Pennsylvania State U

Race and the British Head, 1641-44

DAVID CURRELL, American U of Beirut

Salmasius’ Cock: Gendered Insult in the Defensiones

Wednesday, July 12 11

PANEL SESSION 6 9:30 - 11:00

Roundtable: Milton and Race

VC 112

Chair : JOSHUA HELD, Trinity International U

URVASHI CHAKRAVARTY, U of Toronto

ANGELICA DURAN , Purdue U

MARY NYQUIST, U of Toronto

JOSHUA SCODEL, U of Chicago

REGINALD A. WILBURN, Texas Christian U

Milton’s Educational Writings: Problems, Solutions, Opportunities

VC 215

Chair : NIGEL SMITH, Princeton U

TIMOTHY RAYLOR, Carleton College

Of Education: Thoughts on Genre and Occasion

JAMEELA LARES, U of Southern Mississippi

Updates on Milton’s Logica

LINDA MITCHELL, San José State U

John Milton’s Accedence Commenc’t Grammar (1669): Six Pesky

Milton among the Victorians

VC 101

Chair : CHRIS KOENIG-WOODYARD U of Toronto

JASON PETERS, Booth U College

Milton against Milton, or, Jane Eyre and the Methodist Reception of Paradise Lost

MOLLIE BOWMAN, Carleton U

Dismantling the Iconic Milton: George

Eliot’s Middlemarch as a Parable of Miltonic Reception

ANDREW MATTISON, U of Toledo

The Last Reward: Mark Pattison’s Milton

Unanswered Questions

Numbers, Eternity, and Now

VC 115

Chair : RUSS LEO, Princeton U

ETHAN GUAGLIARDO, U of British Columbia

Milton and the Temporality of Freedom

TRAVIS DECOOK, Carleton U

Milton, Hobbes, and the Denial of the Nunc Stans

MANUEL CÁRDENAS, McGill U

Milton, Abundance, and the Zero-Sum Game

Panel Session 6 (9:30 - 11:00)

Vision and Sight in Paradise Lost

VC 212 VC 206

Chair : LARA DODDS, Mississippi State U

SHAURYA OBEROI, Rutgers U

Blind Epistemologies: Paradise Lost, Vision, and 17th-Century

Experimental Science

GI TAEK RYOO, Chungbuk National U

The Circle In & Out: The Astro/Cosmological Visions of John Donne and John Milton

J. ANTONIO TEMPLANZA

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

Prophetic (Eye) Strain: Paradise Lost

11-12 and the Hebrew Bible

The Theologies of Paradise Regained

Chair : JASON KERR , Brigham Young U

AMBER BIRD, U of Alabama

“Who this is:” Incarnational Poetics in Milton’s Paradise Regained

GEORGE RAMOS, U of Western Ontario Taking Paradise Regained Seriously: The Apocalypse, Eternal Recurrence, and the Sufficiency of Imperfect Glorification in Milton’s Epics

DAVID URBAN, Calvin U

Postulating Orthodoxy in Paradise Regained: The Significance of the Son’s “I am” Statements and His Increasing Identification with the Father

COFFEE BREAK

PLENARY LECTURE

LORNA HUTSON , U of Oxford

Neptune’s Sway: Bodies and Boundaries in the “Island Nation”

Fiction, 1550–1700

Chair: VICTORIA KAHN, UC Berkeley

Undergraduate Panel

Isabel Bader Theatre Victoria U Common Room (VCR), Burwash Hall Lunch will be

Wednesday, July 12 13

Milton, Matter, Monism

VC 213

Chair : JOHN ROGERS , U of Toronto

CASSIE GORMAN, Anglia Ruskin U

“Hurled headlong” or “headlong hurl’d”: John Milton, Henry More, and a Shared Cosmological Poetics

STEPHEN FALLON, U of Notre Dame Milton and Monism, Again

DESEREE CIPOLLONE, McGill U

Satanic Atomism: The Politics of Atomism in Paradise Lost

DENNIS KEZAR, Independent Scholar Reification and its Discontents

Milton’s Global Presence: East Asia

VC 101

Chair : SU FANG NG, Virginia Tech

TIANHU HAO, Zhejiang U

Shakespeare’s and Milton’s Impact on Chinese Literature and Culture: A Preliminary Comparison

HAE YEON KIM, Sunchon National U

Korean Nonchurch Movement and John Milton

YULIA RYZHIK & TARO ISHIGURO

U of Toronto & Meiji U

Milton in Japan: Paradise Lost in Translation

Disability and Milton

Chair : LYNNE GREENBERG Hunter College, CUNY

VC 215

CHRISTINA WIENDELS, McMaster U

“To respite his day-labour with repast, / Or with repose”: Mental Illness and Passive Agency in Paradise Lost

MAURA BRADY, Le Moyne College

Folly and Disability in Samson Agonistes

PASQUALE TOSCANO, Princeton U

“Let Be Assigned Some Narrow Place

Enclosed”: Access, Ableism, and Accommodation in Samson Agonistes

The Literary Pasts in Paradise Lost

VC 115

Chair : DAVID QUINT, Yale U

IVANA BICAK, Durham U

Hunc Infera Monstra Flagellant: Nature and Monstrosity in the Epic Poetry of Milton and Lucan

JAMES ROSS MACDONALD, U of the South

Milton’s Dolon Revisited

JOSEPH ORTIZ, U of Texas, El Paso

Milton’s Georgic: Inventing the Past in Paradise Lost

CATHERINE GIMELLI MARTIN, U of Memphis

The Confessional Epic: Dante and Milton

Wednesday,

July

Social Theologies in Baxter and Milton

Chair : ANDREA WALKDEN

VC 212

JASON KERR, Brigham Young U

Reconsidering Consent: The Cases of Baxter and Milton

KATIE CALLOWAY, Baylor U

Natural Theology, Consent, and Care in Baxter and Milton

ANDREW MCKENDRY, Nord U

Milton and the Modern Critique of Merit

ALISON SEARLE, U of Leeds

Innocence and Excremental Whiteness: John Milton, James Baldwin, and Reading with Care

Queering Miltonic Divinity

VC 211

Chair : STEPHEN GUY-BRAY, U of British Columbia

THEO NORTHCRAFT, U of Toronto

Rhetoric that Doesn’t Matter: Persuasion and Trans Satan in Paradise Lost

NARUGOPAL MUKHERJEE

Bankura Christian College, Bankura U

Transgression of Heteronormativity in Paradise Lost: A Queer Study

JOHN STAINES, John Jay College, CUNY

Milton’s Raptures and the Queer Sublime

DAVID AINSWORTH, U of Alabama

Milton’s Queer Spirit

Heresy and Church Government

VC 206

Chair : DAVID LOEWENSTEIN

Pennsylvania State U

A LI MC TAR, Muhlenberg College

Fallen Father: John Milton, Antinomianism, and the Case Against Adam

BEN CARD, Yale U Milton Among the Heretics

TOBIAS GREGORY, Catholic U of America

Milton’s Ecclesiology: Continuity and Change

ELIZABETH SAUER, Brock U

Restoration Schismatics: Milton, Marvell, and the Legacy of John Hales

Wednesday, July 12 15

2:30 - 4:30

EXHIBITION AND DISCUSSION OF RARE BOOKS

Curated by Misha Teramura, U of Toronto

Drop in any time during this 2-hour window

Maclean Hunter Room, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (RB)

COFFEE BREAK VC 3:45

- 4:00

4:00 - 5:30

PANEL

SESSION 8

Roundtable: Is Milton Good for the Jews? A Tribute to Ernest Sirluck

Sponsored by the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, U of Toronto

VC 112

Chair : RACHEL TRUBOWITZ U of New Hampshire

SHARON ACHINSTEIN , Johns Hopkins U

STANLEY FISH , Florida International U

MARISSA GREENBERG, U of New Mexico

ACHSAH GUIBBORY, Barnard College

PETER HERMAN , San Diego State U

DAVID LOEWENSTEIN, Pennsylvania State U

JASON ROSENBLATT , Georgetown U

JEFFREY SHOULSON, Brandeis U

PAUL STEVENS, U of Toronto

Nationalism, Exceptionalism, and the British Islands

VC 215

Chair : LORNA HUTSON , U of Oxford

SEBASTIAN SOBECKI, U of Toronto

The Invention of Colonialism: Richard Hakluyt’s Discourse Concerning Western Planting and the 15th-Century Libelle

CALLUM BOWLER, Durham U

“Of What Resounds in Fable or Romance”: How Milton Reads the Medieval

MANDY GREEN, Durham U

“Content with these British Islands as My World”: Milton’s Neo-Latin Poems for Charles Diodati and the Search for a “Fit Audience”

Wednesday, July 12 16

Panel Session 8 (4:00 - 5:30)

Lycidas and the Lyric Collection Rethinking the Regicide Treatises

VC 115

Chair : RYAN NETZLEY

Southern Illinois U, Carbondale

DANILA SOKOLOV, U of Iceland, Reykjavík

Lyric Shipwrecks: Writing the Disaster in Lycidas and Seventeenth-Century Poetry

GABRIELA VILLANUEVA NORIEGA

National Autonomous U of Mexico

Milton’s Prophetic Ambiguities in Lycidas

ANN BAYNES COIRO, Rutgers U

The Politics of Assembling: Milton, Herrick, Cavendish

Defamiliarizing the Family in Paradise Lost

VC 206

Chair : LOUIS SCHWARTZ, U of Richmond

LYNNE GREENBERG, Hunter College, CUNY

“Me his Parent”: Sin, Allegory, and Seventeenth-Century Laws of Guardianship

ÁGNES BATÓ, U of Szeged

O Father: The Kinship Metaphor and its Implications in Milton’s Paradise Lost

EUN KYUNG MIN, Seoul National U

Futurity and its Discontents: Abstinence, Anti-Natalism, and Intergenerational Ethics in Paradise Lost

VC 101

Chair : NICHOLAS MCDOWELL, U of Exeter

LUCAS SIMPSON, U of Toronto

Hooker and Milton on the Sacred Constitution of Political Authority

DAVID LEE VAUGHAN

Northwestern Oklahoma State U

Reforming the Reformers: The Polemic of John Milton and the Sermons of Stephen Marshall in the 1640s

THOMAS VOZAR, U of Hamburg

In Persona Regis: Salmasius, Milton, and Hobbes on the Personification of the State

Music and Milton

VC 212

Chair : JOSEPH ORTIZ, U of Texas, El Paso

MAGGIE ANNE MILLER, Georgia State U “With Undiscording Voice”: Discord and Original Sin in Milton’s Poetic Imagination

STEPHEN M. BUHLER

U of Nebraska-Lincoln

Milton-ish Mediations: Fry, Penderecki, Hart, and Paradise Lost

Wednesday, July 12 17

Panel Session 8 (4:00 - 5:30)

Some Versions of Atonement

VC 211

Chair : GREGORY CHAPLIN, Bridgewater State U

MATT DOLLOFF, U San Francisco de Quito

John Milton and Padre Diego de Hojeda: Two Versions of the Passion

CLAUDE STULTING, Furman U

Resurrection Lost: Guilt, Death, and the Crucifixion in Paradise Lost

NAOMI HORIUCHI, Aoyama Gakuin U Paradise Lost Book 3: A Rereading of “My umpire conscience”

HARMONIOUS MILTON: AN EVENING OF VOICE AND VERSE

Church of the Redeemer (CR) 7:30

Free of charge for conference attendees. Doors open at 7:00.

8:30 - 9:30

PANEL SESSION 9 9:30

- 11:00

Service, Servitude, Slavery

VC 115

Chair : CATHERINE GIMELLI MARTIN

U of Memphis

JOSHUA SCODEL, U of Chicago

“Race,” “Nation,” Hospitality, and Servitude in Paradise Lost

JOSHUA HELD , Trinity International U

Milton’s Pauline Universalism: Race, Gender, and Religion in Early Modern England

WARREN CHERNAIK, U of London Service and Servitude in Milton and Marvell

Roundtable: Milton and Chappell — Education, Homosociality, and Violence

VC 112

Chairs:

JEFFREY GORE, U of Illinois, Chicago

TOMOS EVANS, U of Birmingham

DAVID CURRELL, American U of Beirut

LARA DODDS , Mississippi State U

STEPHEN GUY-BRAY, U of British Columbia

EDWARD JONES, Oklahoma State U

Milton and Islam

Chair : DANIEL VITKUS

U of California, San Diego

VC 215

VICTOR HAINAGIU, U of Toronto

Movement and Metamorphosis: The Ottoman Mediterranean in Paradise Lost

ELIZABETH HODGSON, U of British Columbia

The Insidious Infidel: Milton’s Wives, Cromwell’s Voters

ISLAM ISSA, Birmingham City U

Milton and the Principles of Jurisprudence: The Divorce Tracts and Islamic Family Law

Rethinking

Typology in Paradise

Lost and Paradise Regained

VC 101

Chair: PETER HERMAN, San Diego State U

CLAY GREENE, U of Alabama

The Natural History of Man in the Prophetic Books of Paradise Lost

FRANCESCA GARDNER, U of Cambridge

“But past who can recall, or done undo?”: Simple and Complex Typology in Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes

JEFFREY ALAN MILLER, Montclair State U

Milton’s Types and a Gravitational Theory of Keywords

Thursday, July 13 19

Panel Session 9 (9:30 - 11:00)

Women Writers and Milton

VC 212

Chair : SUSANNE WOODS , U of Miami

SYLVESTER CRUZ, Rutgers U

Milton and Vernacular Theology:

The Creation of Eve in Paradise Lost and Order and Disorder

JENNIFER TOPALE, U of Denver

Prophetic Women and Milton’s Narrator in Paradise Lost

JOAN CURBET

U Autònoma de Barcelona

The Varieties of Female Prophecy in John Milton’s 1671 Poems

Rethinking Samson Agonistes

VC 206

Chair : JOSEPH WITTREICH

Graduate Center, CUNY

DANA OMIROVA, Rutgers U

Milton’s Dalilah and the Failure of Interracial Marriage

HSING-HAO CHAO

National Taichung U of Education

The Medical Paradigm in Samson Agonistes: Galenic or Paracelsian?

SEAN BENSON, U of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Terrorism, Stanley Fish, and Divine Command Ethics

COFFEE BREAK 11:00 - 11:30 11:30 - 12:45

PLENARY LECTURE

ACHSAH GUIBBORY, Barnard College

From Milton’s Exceptionalism to America’s Nationalism: Milton’s Late Writings, The Conquest of Canaan (1785), and the Current Rise of Christian Nationalism

Chair: RACHEL TRUBOWITZ, U of New Hampshire

Isabel Bader Theatre

12:45 - 1:45

Undergraduate Panel

Eve and Gender

Victoria U Common Room (VCR)

Lunch will be served

PANEL SESSION 10 1:45 - 3:15

Roundtable: Precarious Milton

VC 215

Chair: JEFFREY ALAN MILLER, Montclair State U

CARLA BARICZ, Yale U

IVANA BIČAK, Durham U

JOHN LADD, Washington and Jefferson College

SU FANG NG, Virginia Tech

GEORGE RAMOS, Fanshawe College

JEFFREY SHOULSON, Brandeis U

Milton’s Global Presence:

20th- and 21st-Century

Receptions

VC 101

Chair : MATT DOLLOFF

U San Francisco de Quito

ANDREW KRONINGER, Purdue U

Methodology in Compiling Russian

Translations of Milton’s Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

ANGELICA DURAN, Purdue U

Milton’s Paradise Lost on the Modern Mexican Public Stage

Transforming the Classical Past

VC 206

Chair : SARAH VAN DER LAAN, Indiana U

JAMES DUNNIGAN, U of Toronto

Milton’s Ovidian Syntheses: Paradise Lost VII and Metamorphoses I

CHIKA KANEKO, Nihon U

Cupido the Pseudo Protagonist in “Elegia Septima”: Deconstructing Ovid’s Metamorphoses

ALEX GARGANIGO, Austin College

The Lucianic Parliament in Hell

Excavations: Milton and Property

VC 212

Chair : ERIC BROWN

U of Maine, Farmington

ANN A. HUSE, John Jay College, CUNY

Plague Years and Patronage: Milton at Horton

OLIN BJORK, U of Houston-Downtown

Milton, the Arundel Marbles, and “Of Statues & Antiquities”

EDWARD JONES, Oklahoma State U

Lifting the Veil on Milton’s Period of Seclusion in 1660

Thursday, July 13 21

Panel Session 10 (1:45 - 3:15)

Paradise Lost: Identity, Epistemology, and Cognition

VC 115

Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, U of Toronto Mississauga

Chair : STEPHEN FALLON, U of Notre Dame

LIANNE HABINEK, U de Strasbourg Holding the Mirror Up to Envy: Cognitive Theory and Paradise Lost

KI-WON HONG, Yonsei U

Where Did Adam’s Obligation to Obey

God Come from? Epistemological Approach to the Problem of Free Will and Reason in Milton

AYELET LANGER, U of Haifa

Identity over Time in Paradise Lost

Milton and Modernism

VC 211

Chair : DANIEL NEWMAN, U of Toronto

AIDAN WAKELY-MULRONEY

Independent Scholar

Milton Pares His Fingernails: James Joyce and the Conclusion of Lycidas

SARAH BABER, U of Notre Dame

Lycidas as Joycean Ghost Story: Milton and Ulysses

HYUNYOUNG CHO

George Mason U, Korea

Milton and Lawrence: Milton in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow

PLENARY LECTURE

3:45 - 5:00

NICHOLAS MCDOWELL , U of Exeter

“Of True Virtue Void”: The Virtue Politics of John Milton

Chair: NIGEL SMITH, Princeton U

Isabel Bader Theatre

8:30 - 9:30

9:30 - 11:00

Milton: 1644

PANEL SESSION 11

VC 112

Chair : GORDON CAMPBELL, U of Leicester

SHARON ACHINSTEIN, Johns Hopkins U

Milton, Divorce, and the Crucible of 1644

NICHOLAS VON MALTZAHN, U of Ottawa

Ethos and Occasion in Milton’s Areopagitica (1644)

NIGEL SMITH, Princeton U

Lovers’ Discourse: The Long Reach of Milton’s Divorce Writings

Women’s Voices in Ovid and Milton

VC 115

Chair : HEATHER JAMES

U of Southern California

SARAH VAN DER LAAN, Indiana U

“Not less but more heroic”: Eve and Epic Traditions of Female Heroism

CAROLINE ENGELMAYER, Harvard U

“Hast thou forgot me then”: Sin, Allegory, and Ovid’s Heroides in Milton’s Paradise Lost

JOEL FABER, U of Toronto

Echoes of Friendship in Eden?

Imagining the Potential for Women’s Friendship in Paradise Lost

New Perspectives on Milton and Empire

VC 215

Chair : ANN BAYNES COIRO, Rutgers U

ANTHONY WELCH

U of Tennessee, Knoxville Christopher Columbus and Milton’s Maritime Epic

ERIC SONG, Swarthmore College

Necessary Evil: Paradise Lost and the History of Bitumen

DANIEL VITKUS, U of California, San Diego

Anti-Imperial Milton

Paradise Lost and the Passions

VC 212

Chair : STEPHEN DOBRANSKI, Georgia State U

DONGHWAN (ALEX) CHUN, U of Notre Dame

Satan’s Pursuit of Joy: Degradation of the Degenerated in Paradise Lost

MONICA MULTER

U of California, Santa Cruz

Edenic Co-Motion: Communal Movements of Prelapsarian Passion in Paradise Lost

ZEYI ZHANG, Baylor U

Friday,

July 14 23

Panel Session 11 (9:30 - 11:00)

Human and Divine in Paradise Lost

VC 206

Chair : SETH LOBIS

Claremont McKenna College

YANXIANG WU, Shanghai U

Milton’s Ploughman and Galileo

NICHOLAS GEORGE

Virginia Commonwealth U

Conversation As Reason in Paradise Lost

CAITLIN RANKIN-MCCABE, Durham U

Out of the Silence . . . Milton’s Sociable Angel

Milton’s Global Presence: South Asia

VC 211

Chair : MIKLÓS PÉTI

Károli Gáspár U

BILQUEES DAR, U of Kashmir

Milton and Iqbal: Analogy of Life, Thought, and Work

HAFIZ ABID MASOOD

International Islamic U, Islamabad

Urdu Translations of Milton’s Paradise Lost: A Comparative Perspective

PLENARY LECTURE

SU FANG NG , Virginia Tech

Milton and Imperial Cartography

Chair: URVASHI CHAKRAVARTY, U of Toronto

Sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Institute

Isabel Bader Theatre

1:45 - 3:15

PANEL SESSION 12

The Laws of Verse and the Testimony of Truth

VC 101

Chair : JOHN RUMRICH , U of Texas, Austin

RYAN NETZLEY

Southern Illinois U, Carbondale

Lawless Verse: Extemporaneity, Anarchy, and the Poetic State of Nature

STANLEY FISH

Florida International U

Speech, Innocence, and Truth in Ustinov’s Billy Budd

Milton’s Global Presence:

Hispanophone and Lusophone America

VC 212

Sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, U of Toronto St. George

Chair : ANGELICA DURAN , Purdue U

MARIO MURGIA

National Autonomous U of Mexico

John Milton and the 19th-Century

Mexican Epic

MIRIAM MANSUR ANDRADE AND LUIZ FERNANDO FERREIRA SÁ

Federal U of Minas Gerais

An Early Intersemiotic translator of Milton in Brazil: Junqueira Freire

LUIZ FERNANDO FERREIRA SÁ AND MIRIAM MANSUR ANDRADE

Federal U of Minas Gerais

An Early Intersemiotic translator of Milton in Brazil: Claudio Manuel da Costa

Milton, Marriage, Divorce

VC 215

Chair : ELIZABETH HODGSON

U of British Columbia

GREGORY CHAPLIN, Bridgewater State U

The Two Faces of Adam: Irreconcilable Differences in Milton’s Divorce Tracts

ZOË BURGARD, Yale U

“Was She Thy God?”: Marital and Sexual Desire as Idolatry in Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes

SARA VAN DEN BERG, Saint Louis U

Seeds and Sparkles: Stoic Ideas in Milton’s First Divorce Tract

Roundtable: Lostathon — On the Marathon Readings of Milton’s Epic

VC 115

Chair : JEANNE SHAMI, U of Regina

DAVID AINSWORTH , U of Alabama

W. GARDNER CAMPBELL, Virginia Commonwealth U

JOHN LEONARD , U of Western Ontario

BRENT NELSON, U of Saskatchewan

JAMES NOHRNBERG , U of Virginia

JOSH REID, East Tennessee State U

LOUIS SCHWARTZ, U of Richmond

Friday, July 14 25

Panel Session 12 (1:45 - 3:15)

Aftertimes: Engaging Milton in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Chair : REGINALD A. WILBURN, Texas Christian U

RANDY ROBERTSON, Susquehanna U

Areopagitica from Milton’s Day to Mill’s

DAVID BOOCKER, U of Nebraska, Omaha

Milton in American Periodicals: Abolition

JEREMY LARSON, Regent U

Uncertain Milton, Uncertain Lewis

2:30 - 4:30

VC 206

EXHIBITION AND DISCUSSION OF RARE BOOKS

Curated by Misha Teramura, U of Toronto

Drop in any time during this 2-hour window

Maclean Hunter Room, Thomas Fisher Rare Book

Library (RB)

3:30 - 4:30

IMS14 Planning Meeting

Chair: STEPHEN FALLON, U of Notre Dame Coffee will be served

RECEPTION

Cash bar

CLOSING BANQUET

Advanced registration required

VC 112

Massey College (M)

Undergraduate Panels 26

Organized by Shaun Ross, Victoria College

Financial support has been provided by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Victoria College.

Victoria University Common Room, Burwash Hall (VCR)

Lunch will be served

Panel 1: Colonialism and Style

Chair: Eric Song, Swarthmore College

Tanmaya Ramprasad, U of Toronto

The Colonial Satan

Anastasia Zaritovskaya, U of Toronto The Fantasy of Adamic Colonization

Sam Mills, U of Maine

Highbrow and Lowbrow Allusions in Paradise Lost

Aisha Humaira, Rutgers U Free Will and Narrative in Paradise Lost

Panel 2: Eve and Gender

Chair: Katie Calloway, Baylor U

Julia Hills, U of Maine Eve, Interpreter of Dreams

Tyne Vainio, U of Toronto

Milton and Gendered Temptation

Celine Hajj Sleiman, U of Toronto Eve’s “sweet attractive grace”

Wednesday, July 12 12:45 - 1:45

Thursday, July 13 12:45 - 1:45

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Our Sponsors

13th International Milton Symposium has generously been sponsored by:

Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies; Department of English, U of Toronto St. George (UTSG); Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Canada Research Chair Program; Faculty of Arts and Sciences, U of Toronto; Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, U of Toronto; Department of Classics, UTSG; Department of Comparative Literature, UTSG; Department of English and Drama, U of Toronto Mississauga (UTM); Department of English, U of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC); Department of History, UTSG; Department of Italian Studies, UTSG; Jackman Humanities Institute, U of Toronto; Ian Lancashire; Department of Language Studies, UTM; Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UTSG; Department of Philosophy, UTM; Department of Philosophy, UTSG; Women and Gender Studies Institute, UTSG; University of St. Michael’s College in the U of Toronto; Victoria University

Land Acknowledgment

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Acknowledgments

IMS Planning Committee: John Rogers, Stephen Fallon, Seth Herbst, Maggie Kilgour, Paul Stevens, Misha Teramura, Andrea Walkden

IMS Program Committee: Andrea Walkden, Liza Blake, Ann Baynes Coiro, John Rogers, Eric Song, Nicholas von Maltzahn

IMS Standing Committee: Hugh Adlington, Gordon Campbell, Hyunyoung Cho, Thomas Corns, Stephen Dobranski, Martin Dzelzainis, Karen Edwards (co-chair), K. Engetsu, Stephen Fallon (co-chair), Edward Jones, John Rogers, Hiroko Sano, Beverly Sherry, Eric Song, Christophe Tournu, Rachel Trubowitz

Special thanks to the CRRS IMS Team: Dr. Natalie Oeltjen, Dr. Joel Faber, Dr. Jordana Lobo-Pires, Sophie Andrade, Stacey Dowswell, Aylin Hasanova, Claire Jeon, Karine Sciborowski

And also to: Larry Beckwith, Robert Busiakiewicz, Mei Linh Cheng, Karen Edwards, Kelly Hayward, Cristina Henrique, Ethan Matt Kavaler, Thomas Keymer, Rhonda N. McEwan, Irene Morra, Naomi Morgenstern, Daniel Newman, Ariana Nicola, Terry Robinson, Lucas Simpson, Gabrielle Sugar

TTC Subway Parking

Parking close to the venue is available at Margaret Addison Hall (MA) and Annesley Hall (AN) for $16 per day from 8am to 7pm. Parking spots may be purchased from the front desk at Margaret Addison Hall on a first come, first served basis. Look for the icon on the map.

Isabel Bader Theatre

Charbonnel Lounge

Massey College

Northrop Frye Hall

Victoria College

Victoria University Common Room

Washrooms are available in the basement of Victoria College (VC); VC also has a small washroom on the 2nd floor. Additional washrooms can be found in the basements of Northrop Frye Hall (NF), Pratt Library (PR), Emmanuel College (EM), and, between 9:45 and 1:45, the Isabel Bader Theatre (BT).

Cover image: Peccato originale, by Domenico Zampieri (1581–1641)