Ben LaBreche, assistant professor of English, has been awarded a Clark Short-Term Fellowship for research at the University of California, Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The fellowship will support a month of research at the Clark Library through the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies. His research will focus on Milton’s conception of liberty, 17th-century natural law, and debates in modern political theory.
Ben LaBreche’s Article Accepted for Publication
Assistant Professor of English, Linguistics and Communication Ben LaBreche’s journal article “‘The Wheat From the Tares’: Areopagitica and the Limits of Pluralism” has been accepted for publication by Milton Studies. The article will appear in volume 53 in 2013.
Ben LaBreche Receives Milton Society Award
Ben LaBreche, assistant professor in English, has been selected to receive the prestigious James Holly Hanford Award from the Milton Society of America.
The award recognizes a distinguished published article on John Milton, the 17th century poet and author of Paradise Lost, and will be shared this year by two recipients. LaBreche won the prize for his essay, “Espousing Liberty: The Gender of Liberalism and the Politics of Miltonic Divorce.” The essay, selected from among the more than 100 Miltonic articles published each year, appeared in English Literary History, a quarterly journal of The Johns Hopkins University for scholars and educators in English and American literature, literary history and theory. The Milton Society will present the award to LaBreche at the annual dinner meeting of the society at the Modern Language Association convention in Seattle in January 2012.