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Edward Jones

Professor
PhD, Ohio University


Areas of Interest & Expertise

  • John Milton
  • 17th-Century British Literature
  • Archival records of the English church, state, and parish
  • Diplomatic correspondence of the Commonwealth and Protectorate
  • The English Civil War

Recent Upper Division and Graduate Courses

 

Graduate Seminars:

  • Book History and Four Famous Renaissance Texts
  • Milton and the Restoration: Literature, Politics, Culture

Upper Division:

  • Shakespeare
  • Classical Mythology
  • The Bible as Literature
  • History and Literature of Classical Greece and Rome

Selected Publications

 

Young Milton: The Emerging Author: 1620-1642. Ed. Edward Jones. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013.

"Preface." Young Milton: The Emerging Author: 1620-1642. Ed. Edward Jones. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013. vii-ix.

"The Archival Landscape of Milton's Youth, University Years, and Pre-London Residencies." Young Milton: The Emerging Author, 1620-1642. Ed. Edward Jones. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013. 3-20.

"Aldersgate Street," "Chalfont St Giles," "Eton," "Thomas Gataker," "Edward Goodall," "John Hales," "Hammersmith." The Milton Encyclopedia. Ed. Thomas N. Coms. New Haven: Yale UP, 2012. 8, 59, 113, 129, 135, 141, 142.

“Early Lives.” Milton in Context. Ed. Stephen Dobranski. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. 26-34.

Professional Appointments

  • Editor, Milton Quarterly 2005-
  • Member, Newberry Library Consortium Representative Committee, 2010-
  • Programme Committee, International Milton Symposium 10, 2012
  • Visiting Research Fellow, New College, Oxford 2010
  • Joan Friedman Fellowship, University of Illinois, 2009
  • Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Fellowship, Harry Ransom Center, 2009
  • President and Vice President, Milton Society of America, 2005, 2004

Awards

  • Phoenix Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Excellence, Oklahoma State University (OSU), 2008
  • Faculty Excellence Award, English Graduate Student Association, Department of English, OSU, 2008
  • Faculty and Staff Appreciation Award, OSU, 2007
  • Faculty Mentor Award, OSU, 2000
  • President's Service Award, OSU, 1999
  • Regent's Distinguished Teaching Award, OSU, 1998
  • Outstanding Teacher, College of Arts and Sciences, OSU, 1996/1993

Recent Grants

 

  • Oklahoma State English Department Travel Grant to Collections, 2013
  • Newberry Library Research Travel Grant, 2011
  • A&S Travel Grant, Oklahoma State University, 2011
  • Newberry Library Research Travel Grant, 2010

Recent Conference or Invited Research Presentations

 

"John Milton and the Hearth Tax: New Records and New Possibilities." Tenth International Milton Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, 2012

"John Milton and the King James Bible." Oklahoma State University, 2012

"Milton and Shakespeare Meet in a Folio: Some Possibilities." University of Oklahoma, 2012

"How Did Milton Get into Shakespeare's Second Folio?" University of Milan, 2012

"Milton as Parishioner." Newberry Library Milton Seminar, 2011

"Christopher Milton in Suffolk: Sorting Out the Records of His Forty-Five Year Residency in the Ipswich Area." Conference on John Milton. Murfreesboro, 2011

"Milton in Italy and Biographical Distortion in the Second Defence." Renaissance Society of America Meeting, Venice, 2010

 

Current Research & Projects

 

Milton and the Parish Chest: Documentary Evidence and the Biographical Enterprise

Milton’s Letters of State, Volume 11, Oxford Complete Works of John Milton

Paradise Lost, Books 7 and 8 for the Milton Variorum

A Concise Companion to the Study of Manuscripts, Printed Books, and the Production of Early Modern Texts: A Festschrift for Gordon Campbell

 


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