UA’s Hudson Strode Program Presents First Southeast Milton Seminar

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama’s Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies in the English department will offer the first Southeast Milton Seminar Friday, Oct. 2, and Saturday, Oct. 3, at Morgan Hall on the UA campus.

The seminar will focus on the 17-century poet and essayist John Milton, author of “Paradise Lost.”

The seminar will feature Dr. Stella Revard, professor emeritus of English at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, who will present the lecture “Milton and Classical Literature: Ovid, Homer and Virgil” at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, in 301 Morgan Hall.

Saturday’s seminar discussion will address a work in progress, Revard’s “The Design of the 1645 Poems,” which will be distributed to attendees electronically before the event. The seminar will start at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, in Morgan Hall 301. There will be a reception following the seminar.

Attendees may register by e-mailing Dr. David Ainsworth at dainsworth@ua.edu by Monday, Sept. 28.  He will send an electronic copy of the paper.  Both events are free and open to the public. For more details, contact Ainsworth at dainsworth@bama.ua.edu or 205/348-2524.

UA’s English department is part of the College of Arts and Sciences, the University’s largest division and the largest liberal arts college in the state. Students from the College have won numerous national awards including Rhodes Scholarships, Goldwater Scholarships and memberships on the USA Today Academic All American Team.