Milton Across Borders and Media

Islam Issa is Professor of Literature and History at Birmingham City University. He is author of Milton in the Arab-Muslim World (2016), winner of the Milton Society of America's First Book award, Shakespeare and Terrorism (2021), and Alexandria: The City that Changed the World (2023). He is co-editor of Milton in Translation (2017), winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuel Memorial Award, and Digital Milton (2018). As a broadcaster and curator, he has presented radio and TV programmes including Cleopatra and Me: In Search of a Lost Queen, and curated exhibitions at public venues including Shakespeare's Birthplace. Angelica Duran is Professor at Purdue University where she has been on the English and Comparative Literature faculties since earning her PhD in English Literature from Stanford in 2000, and has served as Director of the Religious Studies Program and Interim Director of the Creative Writing Program. She is the author of over 60 shorter publications and two monographs, most recently Milton among Spaniards (2020). She is the editor or co-editor five volumes including Milton in Translation (2017).

Part I: Intersemiotic Approaches
1: Angelica Duran and Islam Issa: Introduction: 'The Meaning not the Name'
2: Michael Ullyot: Motives, Methods, and Milton: Presentism Reconciled to Historicism
3: Peter C. Herman: Milton in the Age of Twitter: Carey's The Essential 'Paradise Lost'
4: David Currell: Milton for Students: Towards a Teaching and Learning Archive
Part II: Interlingual Borders
5: Katie Mennis: Latinizing Milton in the English West Indies
6: Geart van der Meer: Milton's Paradise Lost in Frisian Translations
7: Turið Sigurðardóttir: On the Faroese Reworking of Paradise Lost
8: Mustafa Kirca, Hasan Baktir, and Murat Öğütcü, with Islam Issa and Angelica Duran: Milton Lost and Regained in Turkey
Part III: Verbal Borders
9: Amrita Dhar: Madhusudan's Miltonic Epic, the Meghnādbadh kābya
10: Stephen K. Kim: Encountering Milton in Linmark's Leche
11: Mario Murgia: Paradise Lost for Hispanoamerica's Youth
Part IV: Visual Media
12: Jan F. van Dijkhuizen and Lucy McGourty: Narrative Structure, Intervisuality, and Theology in Auladell's El Paraíso perdido
13: Amina Gabrielova: Miltonic Motifs in Russian Poetry and Art
14: Wendy Furman-Adams: Illuminating Milton's Gendered Instant of Creation
15: Camille Adnot: From Milton's Paradise Lost to Blake's Milton
16: Beverley Sherry: Paradise Lost in Stained Glass
17: Richard Kenton Webb, Islam Issa, and Angelica Duran: The Synergies of Drawing and Painting Paradise Lost
Part V: Auditory Media
18: Seth Herbst: The Milton and Music Problem
19: Stephen M. Buhler: Quoting Milton in Musical Appropriations
20: Jonathan R. Olson: Miltonic Tempters in Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street
21: Angelica Duran: Seeing, Hearing, and Feeling Milton's Works with and as Prosthetic Sign Systems
22: John Hale: Milton Marathons
Hugh Adlington: Epilogue