Alison Milbank
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The Reverend Alison Milbank |
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| Born | Alison Grant Legg |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Scholar and priest |
| Spouse(s) | John Milbank |
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| Alma mater |
University of Cambridge Lancaster University |
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| Institutions |
University of Manchester University of Cambridge Middlesex University University of Virginia University of Nottingham Southwell Minster |
Alison Grant Milbank (née Legg) is a British literary scholar specialising in religion and culture, and an Anglican priest. She is associate professor at the University of Nottingham in the theology and religious studies department.
Milbank was born Alison Grant Legg. She studied theology and English literature at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1978; as per tradition, she proceeded to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree in 1981. She undertook a year of teacher training with the University of Cambridge and completed her Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) in 1979. She then undertook postgraduate research at the University of Lancaster, completing her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1988.
She was the John Rylands Research Institute Fellow at the University of Manchester and, after temporary lectureships at Cambridge and the University of Middlesex, taught in the English department at the University of Virginia in the United States for five years. She is now an associate professor at the University of Nottingham in the department of theology and religious studies.
Milbank's research and teaching focuses on the relation of religion to culture in the post-Enlightenment period, with particular literary interest in non-realist literary and artistic expression, such as the Gothic, the fantastic, horror and fantasy. Most recently, she has published a book on the Catholic poetics of J. R. R. Tolkien and G. K. Chesterton. She is currently working on a book which will trace the theological history of the emergence of the Gothic from the pre-Reformation period to the present day.
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