Milton and the Network of Disability, Embodiment and Care

Angelica Duran is Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Religious Studies at Purdue University, where she has also served as Purdue's Director of Religious Studies (2009-2013), Interim Director of Creative Writing (2022-24) and affiliate faculty of Critical Disability Studies. She is the author, editor and co-editor of ten books, including Milton among Spaniards (2020), Global Milton and Visual Art (2021) and Milton Across Borders and Media (2023). She has served on the Executive Committee (2012-21) of the Milton Society of America, on the editorial board of Milton Quarterly (2005-) and as Conference Chair of the Renaissance Society of America (2022-27). Pasquale Toscano is Assistant Professor of English at Vassar College, after earning a master's degree in Classics from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and a PhD in English from Princeton University. He is a co-winner of the Sixteenth Century Society's Harold J. Grimm Prize for scholarship on the Reformation and was named a 2023-24 Peter Ogden Jacobus Fellow, Princeton's highest honour for graduate students. His scholarship appears in Studies in English Literature, 1550-1900 (SEL), Classical Receptions Journal, Disability Studies Quarterly, The Oxford Handbook of George Herbert and Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness. His public-facing and creative writing focus primarily on disability-related issues and appear in The New York Times, The Atlantic and other venues.