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Ann Baynes Coiro
Ann Baynes Coiro
Associate Professor of English
Contact Information
Office: Murray Hall, 206
Campus: College Ave, New Brunswick
Email: coiro@rci.rutgers.edu
Telephone: (732) 932-7841
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Specialization

Milton; seventeenth-century poetry and drama, including women writers; literary history

Biography

B.A., George Washington; M.A., Ph.D., Maryland

Professor Coiro's publications include: Robert Herrick's "Hesperides" and the Epigram Book Tradition (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988); editor of Ennobled Numbers for the Presse, a special issue of George Herbert Journal devoted to Herrick (1992), and Dramatic Milton (forthcoming). Among her essays are: “Milton & Sons: The Family Business,” forthcoming in a special issue of Milton Studies 2008; “’A thousand fantasies’: Milton and the Masque Tradition,” forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Milton (Nigel Smith and Nicholas McDowell, eds. 2008);  “Anonymous Milton, or, A Maske Masked,” ELH (2004); "’A ball of strife’: Caroline Poetry and Royal Marriage," in The Royal Image: Representations of Charles I, (Thomas N. Corns, ed.; 1999); “Fable and Old Song: Samson Agonistes and the Idea of a Poetic Career," in Milton Studies 1998; "Writing in Service: Sexual Politics and Class Position in the Poetry of Aemelia Lanyer and Ben Jonson," Criticism (1993); "Milton and Class Identity: The Publication of Areopagitica and the 1645 Poems," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (1992); "'To repair the ruins of our first parents: Of Education and Fallen Adam," SEL (1988).

Awards: American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship 2004-5; Milton Society of America’s James Holly Hanford Award 1998; Warren I Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching 1996; Outstanding Graduate Teacher, Rutgers University 1995.

Publications
Robert Herrick's Hesperides and the Epigram Book Tradition

"Anonymous Milton, or, A Maske Masked."  ELH, Volume 71, Number 3, Fall 2004.

 

"'To repair the ruins of our first parents': Of Education and Fallen Adam."  SEL, Volume 28, Issue 1, Winter 1988.

Undergraduate Courses Taught Graduate Courses Taught

Early Modern Women Writers

Milton

Milton and Margaret Cavendish

Milton and Shakespeare

Milton and Ovid

Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Literature

Shakespeare

Ben Jonson

Seventeenth-century Drama

Milton and the Restoration

Sixteenth-century Literature

Seventeenth-century Literature

Early Modern Women Writers

 
 
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