Schedule 2008-2009

FALL QUARTER 2008

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Janel Mueller Department of English Literature, The University of Chicago:

“Prospecting for Common Ground in Devotion: Queen Katherine Parr’s Personal Prayerbook”

5:00-6:30, Rosenwald 405

**Please note the unusual date**

Thursday, October 23rd
Kathy Eden

Departments of English, Comparative Literature and Classics Columbia University:

“Familiaritas in Erasmian Rhetoric and Hermeneutics”

4:00-5:30 Rosenwald 405

Presented jointly with The Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop

**Please note the unusual date and time**

Monday, November 17th

Megan Heffernan Department of English, The University of Chicago:

“’A willing minde, eche part togeather sought’:Poetic Environments in the Early Modern Miscellany”

5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405

Monday, December 1st

Rana Choi Divinity School, University of Chicago presenting two short essays:

“The Aesthetics of Iris Murdoch and the Literary Criticism of Erich Auerbach”
and “An Attempt at an Auerbachian Reading of Hamlet”

5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405

 

WINTER QUARTER 2009

Thursday, January 15th
A mock-job talk by Jeffrey Rufo

Department of Comparative Literature:

“‘The mightiest kings have had their minions’: Christopher Marlowe’s Sodomitical Politics”

4:30-6:00 Classics 113

**Note the unusual date, time and place!**

Tuesday, January 20th **Note Change of Date**
Clark Gilpin
Divinity School, University of Chicago:

“The Experience of Defeat: English Political Prisoners, 1649-1662”

5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405

Presented in Cooperation with the Nicholson Center and the Early Modern Workshop

Monday, February 2nd

Elizabeth Hutcheon Department of English, University of Chicago:

“From Shrew to Subject: The Humanist Pedagogy of Petruchio’s ‘Taming-School’ in The Taming of the Shrew”

5:00-6:30, Rosenwald 405

Presented jointly with The Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop
**Friday, February 20th** NOTE NEW ADDITION TO SCHEDULE!
Holly Pickett
Department of English, Washington and Lee University:

“Motion Rhetoric in Serial Conversion Narratives: Religion and Change in Early Modern England”

5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405
**All are invited to attend a dinner at Cedars with Prof. Pickett following the workshop**
Monday, March 2nd
Eric Rasmussen
Department of English, University of Nevada, Reno:

Paper TBA

5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405

Monday, March 16th

Chriscinda Henry Department of Art History, University of Chicago:

“Courtesan ‘Portraiture’ and Illicit Amorous Narratives”

5:00-6:30, Rosenwald 405

SPRING QUARTER 2009

Monday, April 6th

Eirik Steinhoff Department of English, University of Chicago:

“Christopher Marlowe’s ‘ambiguous terms'”

5:00-6:30, Rosenwald 405

Presented jointly with The Poetry and Poetics Workshop

Monday, April 27th

Patricia Fumerton
Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara:

“Moving Violations of Broadside Ballads: ‘The Lady and the Blackamoor,’ Black and More”

5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405

**All are invited to attend a dinner at Cedars with Prof. Fumerton following the workshop**

Monday, May 4th

Rivi Handler-Spitz Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago:

“Judgment and the Creation of Participatory Readers in the Sixteenth Century: Li Zhi and Montaigne.”

2:30-4:00, Rosenwald 405

Presented jointly with the Literature & Cultural History of Pre-Modern East Asia
Workshop

Monday, May 18th

Constance Jordan

Department of English, Clarement Graduate University

Paper TBA

5:00-6:30 Rosenwald 405

Monday, June 1st

Laura Aydelotte
Department of English, University of Chicago:

Building the House of Fame:
Poetry, Memory and Architectural Ekphrasis in Chaucer’s Dream

5:00-6:30, Rosenwald 405