Thomas Matthew Vozar is a scholar of early modern literature and intellectual history with particular expertise in the writings and thought of John Milton. His core research interests lie in learned culture, classical reception, the history of scholarship, Neo-Latin studies, the European republic of letters, and conceptions of intellectual, academic, and political liberty, but his work also extends into such (often intersecting) areas as book history; Shakespeare and Renaissance drama; orientalism and European-Islamic encounters; and colonial America. He has published numerous articles on these and other subjects in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections, which have garnered such accolades as the Natalie Zemon Davis Prize for the best article in Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme and the Calvin and Rose G. Hoffman Prize for the best essay on Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.
His books include Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2023), which won the Milton Society of America’s James Holly Hanford Book Award, and the newly released Isaac Barrow’s On the Turkish Religion: A Latin Poem on Islam from Ottoman Istanbul (Bloomsbury, 2026), which offers the first ever annotated edition and translation of De Religione Turcica, a Latin poem on Islam composed during a visit to Istanbul in the late 1650s by the Cambridge scholar (and mentor of Isaac Newton) Isaac Barrow
