Making the Measures of Man: “Disability” in Milton, Bunyan, and the Long Eighteenth Century
Dr. Andrew McKendry (Nord University)
Dr. Alexander Lash賴煦助理教授 (National Taiwan University)
15:30-17:00, October 21, 2026
B208, Humanities Hall, NTU (臺大人文館B208室)
Speaker Bio
Andrew McKendry is Associate Professor of English Literature at Nord University, Norway, where he leads the Humanities, Education & Culture Research Group. He specializes in the historical relationship between religion and disability, and he is author of Disavowing Disability: Richard Baxter and the Conditions of Salvation (Cambridge University Press, 2021). His work has appeared in journals such as Eighteenth-Century Studies and Studies in Romanticism, as well as in edited collections including Mary Wollstonecraft in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Global Bunyan and Visual Art (Bloomsbury, 2025), and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Disability and Literatures in English, 1700–1900 (Oxford University Press, 2027).


