ALBERT C. LABRIOLA
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH and DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR

ACTING DEAN OF THE MCANULTY COLLEGE & GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS

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

Dr. Labriola teaches and conducts research in Shakespeare, Milton, and the seventeenth-century English metaphysical poets.  He also explores the interrelation of literature and film, and literature and theology.
   His interest in theology has led to the publication of The Bible of the Poor and The Mirror of Human Salvation, two late medieval blockbooks that reflect the iconography and biblical typology popular in the fifteenth century.
   Dr. Labriola is Editor of Milton Studies (University of Pittsburgh Press), Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies (Duquesne University Press),  The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne (volume 4 to be published by Indiana University Press) and A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton (Duquesne University Press).
    Dr. Labriola has received research grants from the Henry E.
Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D. C., the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.  He has been awarded eight grants from  the National Endowment for the Humanities in order to direct summer seminars on Milton for both secondary-school and college teachers.  And he was awarded a grant by the Calgon Corporation to support the publication of A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton.

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP

“Style, Wit, and Prosody in the Poetry of John Donne” and “Donne’s Milton Career” in Oxford Handbook of Donne Studies (Oxford University Press, 2009).

“The Bible and Iconography,” in Oxford Reception History of the Bible (Oxford University Press, 2009)  

“Milton and His Literary Contemporaries,” in Milton in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

“Critical Perspectives on 17th Century British Literature,” in Studies of 17th Century Literature (Continuum Press, 2009).
          
Author, “John Milton” (10,000 words), in Encyclopedia Britannica (in print and online), 2007.
                     
Coeditor and Contributing Author, Milton in the Age of Fish (Duquesne University Press, 2006).
  
Author, “The Son as an Angel in Paradise Lost,” in Milton in the Age of Fish, pp.105-118.

Author, “Jewish Christianity in Milton’s Paradise Lost,” in Tradition, Heterodoxy and Religious Culture: Judaism and Christianity in the Early Modern Period                                (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2006), pp. 75-89.

Author, "The Begetting and Exaltation of the Son: The Junius Manuscript and Milton's Paradise Lost," in Milton's Legacy, ed. Kristin Pruitt and Charles Durham (Susquehanna University Press, 2005), pp. 22-32.

Coeditor (with David Loewenstein), Paradise Regained in Context: Genre, Politics, Religion: Milton Studies 42 (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2003).
    
Commentary Editor, Songs and Sonnets, The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of Donne, one volume in three parts or books (each 1,300 pages long), forthcoming Indiana University Press (Bloomington).  New and authoritative texts of all 53 poems and a synopsis of all scholarly and critical commentary from 1633‑2000.

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.

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.

AWARDS GRANTED BY DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY
* Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in Scholarship, 1981
* Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in Teaching, 1987
* Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in Community Service, 1994
* Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in University Service, 1999
* "Creative Teaching Award" for Core Theology 186: Roman Catholic Heritage, 1990

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