Maura Brady, Ph.D.

Maura Brady teaches courses on renaissance literature, disability, and literature and science. Her scholarship on John Milton’s writing has appeared in Milton Studies, Milton Quarterly, and in various anthologies; her essay “Galileo in Action: The ‘Telescope’ in Paradise Lost” (Milton Studies 44) was awarded the Schacterle Prize from the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Her current research is on Milton and disability; her essay “’Disabled’ Milton: A Geneaology” was published in the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (16.2). As the 2011-14 O’Connell Professor in the Humanities, she developed programs that supported faculty writing and pedagogy, and edited (with Ned Stuckey-French) Why We Do What We Do: Essays by Le Moyne College Faculty, a volume of personal essays by faculty about their work. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from St. John’s College (Annapolis), and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa.