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Edward Jones

Associate Professor
PhD, Ohio University


Areas of Interest & Expertise

  • Milton & Seventeenth Century British Literature
  • The English Civil War
  • Bibliography and Methods
  • Seventeenth Century English Church History

Recent Upper Division and Graduate Courses Taught

  • English Civil War Newsbooks and Early Modern Journalism
  • Milton, Politics, and the American Founding Fathers
  • Literature, Politics, Culture, and the English Civil War
  • 17th Century Readers and Reading Practices

Selected Publications

 

“Select Chronology: `Speak of things at hand / Useful.’” A Concise Companion to Milton. Ed. Angelica Duran. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. 217-34.

“The Loyalty and Subsidy Returns of 1641 and 1642: What They Can Tell Us About the Milton Family.” Milton’s Legacy. Ed. Kristin A. Pruitt and Charles W. Durham. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP, 2005. 234-47.

“Thomas Young.” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 60. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.

“`Church-Outed by the Prelates’: Milton and the 1637 Inspection of the Horton Parish Church.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 102 (2003): 42-58.

“`Filling a Blank in the Canvas”: Milton, Horton, and the Kedermister Library.” Review of English Studies 53 (2002): 31-60.

Honors & Offices

  • Editor, Milton Quarterly 2005-
  • President and Vice President, Milton Society of America, 2005, 2004
  • Executive Committee, Milton Society of America, 1998-2000
  • Faculty and Staff Appreciation Award, Oklahoma State University
  • Faculty Mentor Award, Oklahoma State University
  • President’s Service Award, Oklahoma State University
  • Regents Distinguished Teaching Award, Oklahoma State University
  • Outstanding Teacher, College of Arts and Sciences, Oklahoma State University

Recent Grants or Research Trips

  • “Milton’s Letters of State.” OSU Travel to Collections Program, 2006
  • “Milton’s Letters of State.” Oklahoma Humanities Council, 2005.
  • “Milton’s Letters of State.” Fredson Bowers Award. Bibliographical Society of America, 2005.
  • “Milton’s Letters of State.” Bibliographical Society of London, 2005.

Recent Conference Presentations

 

“The Miltons at Horton: The Decision to Tour the Continent and the Marriage of Christopher Milton.” British Milton Seminar, University of Birmingham, October 2006.

“The Wills of Thomas Young and Edward Goodall and the Life of John Milton.” The Conference on John Milton, Murfreesboro, TN, October 2005.

“Establishing Roots in Westminster: Edward Phillips, Anne Milton, Thomas Agar, and the Parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.” Eighth International Milton Symposium, Grenoble, France, June 2005.

Current Research & Projects

  • Milton and the Parish Chest: Documentary Evidence and the Biographical Enterprise.
  • Editor, Milton’s Letters of State. Vol. 11. The Oxford Milton. Oxford: Oxford UP.
  • Commentary Editor, Paradise Lost, Books 7 and 8, Milton Variorum. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP.


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