Please join the Renaissance Workshop this Wednesday, December 4, when
LAURIE SHANNON
Professor of English at Northwestern University
presents two pieces of work for discussion: a Modern Philology article on gender categorizations,
“Nature’s Bias: Renaissance Homonormativity and Elizabethan Comic Likeness,”
and a shorter piece in progress on the interactions of gender and species in period concepts of “kind,”
“Early Modern Perfection in Kind: Animal Happiness, Female Nonhumanity.”
WEDNESDAY 4 DECEMBER
Rosenwald 405
The papers, to be read in advance, will be distributed to the Renaissance Workshop mailing list.
To be added to our list or to request a copy of the paper, please contact workshop coordinator Abigail Marcus (agmarcus@uchicago.edu).
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Professor Shannon will also be giving a lecture,
“‘The Fabrick of the Wing,’ circa 1600:
Minute Bodies and Human Defect at the Rise of the Microscope”
TUESDAY 3 DECEMBER
4:30
Rosenwald 405
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Please join us for both exciting events!
**Persons needing assistance in order to attend the 12/4 workshop, please contact Abigail (agmarcus@uchicago).**