Marjorie and Lorin Tiefenthaler Professor of English;
Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in the
Humanities
Office Telephone: 608-263-3759
Campus E-mail: daloewen@wisc.edu
PhD, University of Virginia, 1985
BA, Oberlin College, 1977
Early modern English literature and culture; Milton and his contemporaries; literature and politics in early modern England; literature and religion; early modern women writers; theories of historical interpretation; history of the book.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, The Newberry Library,
1989-90
John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship, 1995-96
Visiting Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge University, 1999
The James Holly Hanford Award of the Milton Society of America for Distinguished
Book, 1991, 2002
Starr Visiting Fellowship, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, 2005-6
Visiting Research Fellowship, Merton College, Oxford University, 2006
Elected Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America, 2006
Milton and the Drama of History: Historical Vision, Iconoclasm, and the Literary Imagination (Cambridge, 1990); coeditor, Politics, Poetics, and Hermeneutics in Milton's Prose (Cambridge, 1990); Milton: Paradise Lost (1993), a critical volume in the Cambridge UP Landmarks of World Literature series; co-editor, The Emergence of Quaker Writing: Dissenting Literature in Seventeenth-Century England (1995); "Treason against God and State: Blasphemy in Milton's Culture and Paradise Lost," in Milton and Heresy, ed. Stephen Dobranski and John Rumrich (Cambridge, 1998); "The King among the Radicals," in The Royal Image: Representations of Charles I, ed. Thomas N. Corns (Cambridge, 1999); Representing Revolution in Milton and His Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism (Cambridge, 2001); coeditor, The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge, 2002; paperback edn., 2006); coeditor, Heresy, Literature, and Politics in Early Modern English Culture (Cambridge, 2006); Heresy, Persecution and Fear in Early Modern English Literature (Oxford University Press, forthcoming); Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England (co-editor; forthcoming from the U of Toronto P, 2008).
My research explores the interconnections between literature, religion, and politics in early modern England. I am now writing a book about literature, heresy, and politics in England from Thomas More and Anne Askew to John Milton. My courses likewise tend to be cross-disciplinary in emphasis: I recently taught our graduate course on Literature, Politics, and Religion in the English Renaissance.