Mary Ann Nevins Radzinowicz
| Mary Ann Nevins Radzinowicz | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Mary Ann Nevins 1925 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Academic and Scholar |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Fulbright Scholarship Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Columbia University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English Literature scholar |
| Sub-discipline | 17th century English Literature |
| Institutions | Girton College, Cambridge. University of Cambridge. Cornell University |
| Main interests | John Milton, 17th century English literature |
| Notable works |
Toward Samson Agonistes: The Growth of Milton's Mind. Milton's Epics and the Book of Psalms |
Toward Samson Agonistes: The Growth of Milton's Mind.
Mary Ann Nevins Radzinowicz (born Mary Ann Nevins, April 18, 1925) is an American academic and scholar of English literature. She is a leading authority on John Milton and 17th century English literature. She is Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of English Literature Emerita at Cornell University.
She read English at Radcliffe College and took her M.A. and PhD degrees at Columbia University. She was awarded two Fulbright Scholarships to attend the University of Cambridge, where she took a further M. A. degree. She was a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge and lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge for 20 years. From 1980, she was Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of English Literature at Cornell University where she specialised in literary criticism in a historical context. She retired in 1990 and moved to live in Ballyvaughan, County Clare, Ireland.
Her best known-book is the magisterial Toward Samson Agonistes: The Growth of Milton's Mind (1978); it was followed by Milton's Epics and the Book of Psalms (1989), both published by Princeton University Press. She has also written scholarly articles including the influential "Milton and the Tragic Women of Genesis" in 1995. She has also edited a number of books including American Colonial Prose: John Smith to Thomas Jefferson (1984, Cambridge University Press) She is most associated with her work on Milton and 17th century English literature.
She was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982 for her research on Milton's epics and the Book of Psalms: the fellowship is awarded to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts".
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