B.A., George Washington; M.A., Ph.D., Maryland
Professor Coiro specializes in seventeenth-century literature and culture. She is currently completing a book on Milton and drama. Her recent and forthcoming publications include “Milton & Sons: The Family Business,” in a special issue of Milton Studies 2008 devoted to Milton and historicism; “‘A thousand fantasies’: The Lady and the Masque,” forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Milton (Nigel Smith and Nicholas McDowell, eds. 2009), “The Dramatic Contexts of Milton’s Poetry” in Milton in Context (Stephen Dobranski, ed., forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, 2009) and “Old, New, Now,” the introduction to a volume of essays she has co-edited with Thomas Fulton, Rethinking Historicism: Essays in Early Modern Literature and Culture (forthcoming).
She is the author of 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). Among her essays are: “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); and "'To repair the ruins of our first parents: Of Education and Fallen Adam," SEL (1988).
She is the recipient of an American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship and a New Jersey Governor’s Fellowship. She won the Milton Society of America’s James Holly Hanford Award for her article “Fable and Old Song: Samson Agonistes and the Idea of a Poetic Career,” and she has received Rutgers’ Outstanding Graduate Teaching award and the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching. |
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 |
