Barbara Kiefer Lewalski (February 22, 1931 – March 2, 2018)[1] was an American academic, an authority on Renaissance literature particularly known for her work on John Milton.[2]
Her first book, Milton’s Brief Epic: The Genre, Meaning and Art of Paradise Regained, has been praised as a "trail-blazing" work that marshals "great learning in the service of understanding a specific artefact, without swamping the artefact."[3] From 1983-2010 she was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature at Harvard University.
Lewalski graduated B.S.E. at Emporia State University in 1950 and A.M. in 1951, Ph.D. in 1956 at the University of Chicago.[4]
She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1967,[5] and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1980 and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1986.[1]
In 2016, the Renaissance Society of America awarded her the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award for recognition of her decades of influential scholarship.[3]
Barbara Kiefer was born February 22, 1931 in Chicago.[6]
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