Department of EnglishJohns Hopkins University24 Gilman Hall3400 N. Charles StreetBaltimore, MD 21218
Johns Hopkins University Sir William Osler Professor of English
Books:
*Milton and Toleration, co-ed. with Elizabeth Sauer (Oxford, 2007), winner of the Irene M. Samuel Award of the Milton Society of America.
*Literature and Dissent in Milton's England (Cambridge, 2003).
*Milton and the Revolutionary Reader (Princeton, 1994), winner of the Hanford Prize.
Selected Articles:
*“Milton’s Trifles: Lyric Disparagement in an Age of Walking Books,” Modern Language Quarterly 73:1 (2012). 13-36.
*“Politics and Aesthetics of Dissent, 1690-1750,” The History of British Women’s Writing, vol. 4, ed., R. Ballaster (London, 2010), 81-95.
*“Saints or Citizens? Ideas of Marriage in Seventeenth-Century English Republicanism,” The Seventeenth Century 25:2 (2010), 240-64.
*“Cold War Milton,” University of Toronto Quarterly 77:3 (2008), 801-836.