| 1 | Name: | Dr. Barbara Kiefer Lewalski | |
| Institution: | Harvard University | ||
| Year Elected: | 1986 | ||
| Class: | 4. Humanities | ||
| Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Deceased | ||
| Birth Date: | 1931 | ||
| Death Date: | March 2, 2018 | ||
William R. Kenan Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature, Emeritus at Harvard University, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski was highly regarded for her scholarship on Renaissance literary genres, the poets John Milton and John Donne, and her balanced appreciation of female writers and patrons in the English Renaissance. She authored numerous books, including Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric (1979), Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms (1985), Writing Women in Jacobean England, 1603-1625 (1993), and The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography (2000). She was also the recipient of prestigious awards including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a NEH Senior Fellowship, and three Huntington Library Fellowships. Dr. Lewalski received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and, prior to joining the Harvard faculty, she taught at Wellesley College (1954-56) and Brown University (1956-76). Dr. Lewalski was a past president of the Milton Society of America and has edited texts such as Major Poets of the Earlier Seventeenth Century and Milton, Paradise Lost (2008). She served on the Harvard faculty 1982 until 2015 when she became professor emerita. Barbara Lewalski died March 2, 2018, at the age of 87 in Providence, Rhode Island. | |||