Ben LaBreche
The Milton Society of America chose UMW Assistant Professor of English Ben LaBreche for its prestigious James Holly Hanford Award. His essay Espousing Liberty: The Gender of Liberalism and the Politics of Miltonic Divorce was one of two winners selected from articles published this year on John Milton, the 17th-century poet and author of Paradise Lost.
The Milton Society will present the awards at its meeting at the Modern Language Association convention in Seattle in January. This year, LaBreche received a research grant from the Folger Institute and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and a UMW faculty development grant. His winning essay appeared in English Literary History, a quarterly journal of The Johns Hopkins University.