Autumn 2023

October 6th | Benjamin Saltzman
Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago
“Sensation” from Turning Away: Variations on an Ancient Gesture 
12:30-2:00, Rosenwald 405

October 20th | Kris Trujillo
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
Cataphasis, Apophasis, and the Jubilant Body
12:30-2:00, Rosenwald 405

November 3rd | Jesse Noilly
MA Student, Divinity School, University of Chicago
Reading as “Adornment”: On Beauty and Zoharic Hermeneutics
12:30-2:00, Rosenwald 405

November 17th | Natalie Nitsch
MA Student, Divinity School, University of Chicago
“For whom this boke was made”: Evidence for a Lay Readership of Þe Myrrour of Simple Soulis”
12:30-2:00, Rosenwald 405