FALL 2019
October 7 | Owen Joyce-Coughlan
PhD Student, Divinity, University of Chicago
“On the Relationship between Philosophy of Nature and Mystical Practice in Meister Eckhart, Nicholas of Cusa and Giordano Bruno”
October 21 | Ben Jeffery
PhD Candidate, Social Thought, University of Chicago
“The Despotic Image: Grievance and Non-presence in Shakespeare”
November 4 | Raphael Magarik
Assistant Professor, English, University of Illinois at Chicago
“A Failure to Communicate: Miltonic Accommodation and Narration”
November 18 | Ellen MacKay
Associate Professor, English, University of Chicago
“The Moods of Gamification in The Tempest”
December 2 | Michal Zechariah
PhD Candidate, English, University of Chicago
“Miltonic Gratitude”
WINTER 2020
January 6 | Katie Kadue
Collegiate Assistant Professor, Humanities, University of Chicago
“The ‘Enchanting Ravishment’ of Chastity in Shakespeare and Milton”
February 3 | Noémie Ndiaye
Assistant Professor, English, University of Chicago
“Accenting Race: Blackspeak in Early Modern Europe“
February 17 | Beatrice Bradley
PhD Candidate, English, University of Chicago
“‘For here’s a young and sweating devil, here’: Touching Hands in Othello”
March 2 | Russ Leo
Assistant Professor, English, Princeton University
“Spinoza and the Spinoza Circle, between Art and Anatomy”
March 11 (Wednesday) | Ryan Campagna
PhD Student, English, University of Chicago
“John Donne and the Feeling of Dying”
SPRING 2020
April 13 | Sarah-Gray Lesley
PhD Student, English, University of Chicago
“How to Read a Woman-Hater: Marginalia and Joseph Swetnam’s Araignment of Lewde, idle, froward and vnconstant women (1615)”
April 27 | Nicholas Bellinson
PhD Candidate, Social Thought, University of Chicago
“Does Portia Cheat? and other questions about the casket trial in The Merchant of Venice”
May 11 | Timothy Harrison
Assistant Professor, English, University of Chicago
“John Donne’s Physics” (Chapter One of Book MS)
May 25 | Sarah Kunjummen
PhD, English, University of Chicago
“‘Black, wherein All Colors are Composed’: Color and Epistemology in the Poetry of Edward Herbert”