Profile
Lynne Greenberg is a Professor in the Department of English at Hunter College, CUNY. She specializes in seventeenth-century English literature, particularly the work of John Milton. Her research explores the intersections of law, politics, material culture, and early modern literature. Professor Greenberg has been at Hunter since 2001. She earned her Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2001. She also has a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School and practiced intellectual property law before her academic appointment.
She teaches a wide range of early modern literature courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including John Milton, Studies in Milton, Milton and His Influence, Seventeenth-Century Literature, Early Modern Women Writers, Fairies in Renaissance Literature, Survey of British Literature I, and Law and Literature. She also teaches Creative Non-Fiction writing workshops.
She is the author of the memoir The Body Broken, published by Random House in 2009, which offers a personal re-telling of Milton’s Paradise Lost. She was interviewed by Diane Sawyer for ABC’s Good Morning America and various podcasts, video blogs, local news, and radio programs upon the book’s publication. Her most recent book explores the prose and poetry of John Milton and early modern law.