Angelica Duran
- Professor // English
- Professor // Comparative Literature // SLC
- Professor // Religious Studies // SIS
- Affiliated Faculty // Critical Disability Studies // SIS
Research Focus
16th-21st century Comparative Literature; Disability Studies
Curriculum vitae
Office and Contact
Room: SC 288
Email: duran0@purdue.edu
Courses
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2000
M.A., University of California Berkeley, 1988
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1987
Specialization
British Literature
Research Areas:
Comparative and World Literature, with a special interest in Anglophone-Hispanophone translation and influence, as well as the relationship of censorship and aesthetics. Religious Studies, especially the King James Version of the Bible. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, with special interest in John Milton, William Shakespeare, John Bunyan, and John Donne.
Angelica Duran is a Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Religious Studies. She is the co-editor of Mo Yan in Context: Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller (Purdue UP, 2014), Milton Studies 58 Special Issue: Milton in the Americas (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), Global Bunyan and Visual Art (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025), and two co-edited volumes awarded the Irene Samuel Award from the Milton Society of America: Milton in Translation (Oxford UP, 2017) and Milton Across Borders and Media (Oxford UP, 2023); the editor of A Concise Companion to Milton (Blackwell, 2007, pbk. 2011) and The King James Bible across Borders and Centuries (Duquesne UP, 2014); and author of The Age of Milton and the Scientific Revolution (Duquesne UP, 2007), Milton among Spaniards (U of Delaware P, 2020), and over 70 chapters and articles. She has served on the editorial board of Milton Quarterly (2005–), on the Executive Committee (2012–21) of the Milton Society of America, and as Conference Chair of the Renaissance Society of America (2022–27).