The British Milton Seminar meets twice yearly to discuss papers on subjects relating to John Milton’s life, work and times, together with his legacy and influence. The seminar is open to academic and academic-related staff and to postgraduate students.

This year the BMS will be held online via Zoom. Information regarding registration and the full program is available at britishmiltonseminar.wordpress.com/.

Speakers

Mandy Green (Durham) – “‘Two Great Sexes Animate the World’: Looking Past ‘Milton’s Bogey’ in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
Murat Öğütcü (Independent scholar) – “Milton (Regained) in Turkey: Halide Edip Adıvar’s Pedagogical Intersemiotic Translations of Milton in Turkish Higher Education”
Amrita Dhar (Ohio State) – “Milton’s Blind Poetry: Paradise Lost”
Tomos Evans (Birmingham) – “Odyssean and/or Argonautic Satan: Disruptive Models and the Epic Tradition in Books I and II of Paradise Lost”

Co-convenors

Hugh Adlington (Birmingham)
Sarah Knight (Leicester)