ALBERT C. LABRIOLA
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH and DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR

Office: College Hall 622
Telephone: 412-396-6435
Email: labriola@duq.edu

EDUCATION
B.Ed., Duquesne University
M.A., Columbia University
M.A., University of Virginia
Ph.D., University of Virginia

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Early Modern English Literature

COURSES TAUGHT
Milton
Shakespeare
Shakespeare on Film
17th Century Literature
Renaissance Literature and the Arts

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP

Coauthor, The Mirror of Salvation [Speculum Humanae Salvationis]: An Edition of British Library Blockbook G. 11784 ( Duquesne University Press, 2002).

Coauthor, The Bible of the Poor [Biblia Pauperum]: A Facsimile and Edition of British Library Blockbook C.9.d.2 (Duquesne University Press, 1990).

Editor of Milton Studies ( University of Pittsburgh Press), 1992-present.

Editor of the Duquesne University Press Series in Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies (MRLS), 1980-present.

Volume Editor, Songs and Sonnets, The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne.

General Editor, A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton.

"Donne's 'Elegie: Going to Bed' and the Ditchley Painting: The Poetry and Portraiture of the Cult of Elizabeth I" Studies in Philology, 1996.

" Milton's Eve and the Cult of Elizabeth I" Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 1996.

"Unfolding the Conceit: The Metaphysical Poetry of John Donne, George Herbert, and Richard Crashaw." Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding. University of Toronto Press, 1994.

"John Milton." Concise Dictionary of Literary Biography-Volume II: Writers of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century 1660-1789. Gale Research, 1992. rpt. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Seventeenth Century British Nondramatic Poets. Ed. M. Thomas Hester. Gale Research, 1993.

"Reader-Response Criticism and the Poetry of e.e. cummings." Cithara: Essays in the Judeo-Christian Tradition, 1992.

FELLOWSHIPS

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for School Teachers, " Paradise Lost and the Contemporary Reader," Director: 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003.

Four fellowships for research at the Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery, San Marino, CA.

One fellowship for research at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.

Three grants from the Pennsylvania Humanities Council.

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