{"id":79296,"date":"2022-07-04T11:16:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T15:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=79296"},"modified":"2022-07-04T16:20:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T20:20:18","slug":"english-prof-recognized-for-contributions-to-milton-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/07\/english-prof-recognized-for-contributions-to-milton-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"English prof recognized for contributions to Milton scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University English Language and Literature Professor Elizabeth Sauer has been named the 2023 Honored Scholar by the <a href=\"https:\/\/miltonsociety.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Milton Society of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The prestigious honour recognizes Sauer\u2019s lifetime contributions to Milton scholarship. She has published more than 60 essays and 19 books and edited collections that have made significant contributions to Milton-related fields, including early modern English literature and history, religion, print culture, nationalism and literary history of comparative imperialisms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Milton remains a global poet, whose writings are read by people across all continents, the Milton Society\u2019s honour roll consists of an international group of scholars, whose work I admire and value most in the profession,\u201d says Sauer.<\/p>\n<p>Milton, an English poet under Oliver Cromwell, was a driving force in Western Europe\u2019s Reformation. His poetry helped lay the groundwork for modern thinking in civic, political and religious theories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMilton\u2019s writings teach us a lot about the terms and conditions of liberty, revolutionary thinking, scholarly pursuits, theories of education and conceptions of moral philosophy,\u201d says Sauer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHumanities scholars have always embraced the civic role of contributing to public-facing forums and defending the livelihood of public intellectuals,\u201d she says. \u201cFor Milton, the exercise of \u2018studying for action\u2019 was invested with self- and nation-formation potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sauer is recognized as a leading world expert on Milton. In the past, she has won the James Holly Hanford Award and the Irene Samuel Memorial Awards from the Milton Society of America. In 2017, Sauer served as the Society\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/04\/brock-professor-appointed-president-of-milton-society-of-america\/\">president<\/a>. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Canada Council Killam Research Laureate, and a past winner of a Brock University Chancellor Chair for Research Excellence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University English Language and Literature Professor Elizabeth Sauer has been named the 2023 Honored Scholar by the Milton Society of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":79297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,37,1,4],"tags":[5182,76,30,3325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79299,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79296\/revisions\/79299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}