Spring 2012 Schedule

Monday, April 2, 5pm – Rosenwald 405 

Jonathan Goldberg (Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, Department of English, Emory University)

“Painting Marks”

co-sponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies

 

Tuesday, April 10, 5pm – Walker 403

William H. Sherman (Professor of English, University of York)

“Early Modern Punctuation and Modern Editions: Shakespeare’s Serial Colon”

co-sponsored by the TAPS Workshop and the Nicholson Center for British Studies

***please note the unusual day and location***

 

Weds-Thurs, April 18 and 19 – Rosenwald 405

Lorna Hutson (Berry Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews)

Lecture: “Circumstances Unnecessary to His Main Design.”  Wednesday, April 18, 5:00 p.m., Rosenwald 405

Workshop, “Forensic Rhetoric and Tragic Feeling in Macbeth.”  Thursday, April 19, 5:00 p.m., Rosenwald 405

These events are organized and sponsored by the Department of English.  We strongly encourage members of the Renaissance Workshop to attend.

***Note the unusual days and times***

 

Monday, April 30, 5 pm – Rosenwald 405

Josh Scodel (Helen A. Regenstein Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago)

“Making Literary History: Metrical Allusions and Distinctions in Ben Jonson’s Epigrams and Forest

co-sponsored by the Poetry and Poetics Workshop

 

Mon-Tues, May 7-8 – Rosenwald 405

Lena Cowen Orlin (Professor of English, Georgetown University)

Lecture: “The Private Life of William Shakespeare.”  Monday, May 7, 5 p.m., Rosenwald 405

Workshop: “Making Public the Private.”  Tuesday, May 8, 5:00 p.m., Rosenwald 405

These events are organized and sponsored by the Department of English.  We strongly encourage members of the Renaissance Workshop to attend.

***Note the unusual days and times***

 

Monday, May 14, 5 pm – Rosenwald 405

Greg Baum (Graduate Student in Comparative Literature, the University of Chicago)

“‘Greater Thieves Than Cacus’: Tracing Fidelity in Thomas Shelton”

co-sponsored by the Western Mediterranean Workshop

 

Monday, June 4, 5 pm – Rosenwald 405

Renaissance workshop/MAPH thesis panel.  Details TBA.