Professor
Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
(
–
)
1931
2018
Brown University
;
Providence, RI
Language and literary scholar; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
1980
Research centers on seventeeth-century English literature, especially Milton. She has just completed a major biography of Milton and has also written on several other major and minor literary figures of the English Renaissance, including Shakespeare, Donne, George Herbert, Ben Jonson, Aemilia Lanyer, Rachel Speght, and many more. Her books treat ideas of authorship, genre theory, gender issues, literary history, and authors' interaction with the politics and culture of their times.
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