The Reverend Canon

Alison Milbank
Born
Alison Grant Legg

(1954-10-10) 10 October 1954
NationalityBritish
Spouse
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(m. 1978)​
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisDaughters of the House[1] (1988)
Academic work
DisciplineReligious studies
Institutions
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristianity (Anglican)
ChurchChurch of England
Ordained
  • 2006 (deacon)
  • 2007 (priest)
Offices held
Canon Theologian of Southwell Minster (since 2017)

Alison Grant Milbank (née Legg; born 10 October 1954) is a British Anglican priest and literary scholar specialising in religion and culture. She is Canon Theologian at Southwell Minster and a professor at the University of Nottingham in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies.[2]

Early life and education

Milbank was born Alison Grant Legg[3] on 10 October 1954.[4] She studied theology and English literature at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1978; as per tradition, she proceeded to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree in 1981.[5][6] She undertook a year of teacher training with the University of Cambridge and completed her Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) in 1979.[6] She then undertook postgraduate research at the University of Lancaster, completing her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1988.[5][6]

Career

Academic career

Milbank was the John Rylands Research Institute Fellow at the University of Manchester and, after temporary lectureships at Cambridge and the University of Middlesex, taught in the English department at the University of Virginia in the United States for five years.[7] She is now an associate professor at the University of Nottingham in the department of theology and religious studies.[5]

Milbank's research and teaching focuses on the relation of religion to culture in the post-Enlightenment period, with particular literary interest in non-realist literary and artistic expression, such as the Gothic, the fantastic, horror and fantasy. She has published a book on the Catholic poetics of J. R. R. Tolkien and G. K. Chesterton. She is currently working on a book which will trace the theological history of the emergence of the Gothic from the pre-Reformation period to the present day.

Ordained ministry

From 2005 to 2006, Milbank trained for ordained ministry on the East Midlands Ministry Training Course.[6] She was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2006 and as a priest in 2007.[6] From 2006 to 2009, she served her curacy at Holy Trinity Church, Lambley, Nottinghamshire, as a non-stipendiary minister.[6] From 2009 to 2017, she was a priest vicar at Southwell Minster.[6][8] Since 2017, she has been Canon Theologian of Southwell Minster: she was installed as canon during a service at the cathedral on 15 October 2017.[9]

Personal life

In 1978, she married the theologian John Milbank.[3] He is one of the principal exponents of radical orthodoxy.

Selected works

  • God and the Gothic: Religion, Romance and Reality in the English Literary Tradition, Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-19-882446-6
  • Dante and the Victorians. Manchester University Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-7190-3700-9.
  • Chesterton and Tolkien as theologians: the fantasy of the real, T & T Clark, 2007, ISBN 978-0-567-04094-7
  • Ann Ward Radcliffe (1995). Alison Milbank (ed.). The castles of Athlin and Dunbayne. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-282357-1.
  • Ann Ward Radcliffe (2008). Alison Milbank (ed.). A Sicilian Romance. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-953739-6.
  • Milbank, Alison (1992). Daughters of the House: modes of the gothic in Victorian fiction. Basingstoke: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0333566152.
  • Alison Milbank, ed. (2007). Beating the traffic: Josephine Butler and Anglican social action on prostitution today. Winchester: George Mann. ISBN 978-0955241543.
  • Milbank, Alison; Davison, Andrew (2010). For the Parish: a critique of fresh expressions. London: SCM Press. ISBN 978-0334043652.

References

  1. ↑ Milbank, Alison (1988). Daughters of the House: Modes of the Gothic in the Fiction of Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Sheridan le Fanu (PhD thesis). Lancaster, England: University of Lancaster. OCLC 499196121.
  2. ↑ "Alison Milbank". University of Nottingham. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
  3. 1 2 "MILBANK, Prof. (Alasdair) John". Who's Who 2017. Oxford University Press. November 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  4. ↑ Milbank, Alison (1954-....) (in French)
  5. 1 2 3 "Alison Milbank". Department of Theology and Religious Studies. University of Nottingham. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Alison Grant Milbank". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  7. ↑ Milbank, Alison. "Continuum – Alison Milbank". Continuumbooks.com. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
  8. ↑ "Who's Who at Southwell Minster". Southwell Minster. The Church of England. Archived from the original on 28 July 2018. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  9. ↑ "New Canon Theologian and a Canon Chancellor appointed". Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham. 19 June 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
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